Progress toward openness, transparency, and reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience

Rick O. Gilmore, Michele T. Diaz, Brad A. Wyble, Tal Yarkoni

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Abstract

Accumulating evidence suggests that many findings in psychological science and cognitive neuroscience may prove difficult to reproduce; statistical power in brain imaging studies is low and has not improved recently; software errors in analysis tools are common and can go undetected for many years; and, a few large-scale studies notwithstanding, open sharing of data, code, and materials remain the rare exception. At the same time, there is a renewed focus on reproducibility, transparency, and openness as essential core values in cognitive neuroscience. The emergence and rapid growth of data archives, meta-analytic tools, software pipelines, and research groups devoted to improved methodology reflect this new sensibility. We review evidence that the field has begun to embrace new open research practices and illustrate how these can begin to address problems of reproducibility, statistical power, and transparency in ways that will ultimately accelerate discovery.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5-18
Number of pages14
JournalAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume1396
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 3 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Neuroscience(all)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
  • History and Philosophy of Science

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