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IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study

Scientific American - Posted: September 25th, 2012, 1:32am EDT

pI have to say that I am incredibly pleased that this study won the Ignobel. Not just because it#8217;s a really fun study, but also because it really is one of those studies that makes you laugh, and then makes you THINK. And in the case of this study in particular, it has changed a lot about how we think about making corrections in fMRI, and may have actually really affected the way the data is published. And so, I present to you: the dead salmon study./ppBennett et al. #8220;Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction#8221; Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study[More]/a

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