More specifically, the team of researchers randomly split the fMRI scans in small groups of 20. Using one group as a control and another as experimental data, the researchers compared the two groups.

Luckily, during the 1990s, fMRI pioneers developed techniques for dealing with the problem: multiple comparisons correction. The most popular method uses Gaussian Random Field Theory to calculate the ...

It’s another blow for neuroscience. The discovery of major software flaws could render thousands of fMRI brain studies inaccurate. The use of fMRI is a common method for scanning the brain in ...

The fMRI results suggest that, while improvising, rappers enter a “flow” state that is similar to athletes being "in the zone.” Several parts of the brain involved in sensory experience ...

From mathematics to medicine: Applying complex mathematics to analyze fMRI data Date: August 18, 2021 Source: Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research ...

It all started with a rejected grant proposal. Ahmad Hariri, a neuroscientist at Duke University, was interested in using so-called "task fMRI"—in which subjects perform specially designed ...

Researchers are using fMRI techniques to monitor blood flow through the brain and are hoping to shed light on the mysterious inner workings of the human mind. Research News.

Scientists have studied living human brains using fMRI for years, to answer questions about addiction, depression, and also whether a bad breakup hurts as much as spilling hot coffee over yourself.

15 years of brain research has been invalidated by a software bug, say Swedish scientists Up to 70% of fMRI analyses produce at least one false positive, challenging the validity of over 40,000 ...

The fMRI signal was most strongly related to the input-processing signals, the team found. This, they say, makes sense: processing inputs is the most energy-consuming part of a neuron's job, and ...

Global fMRI fluctuations are associated with systemic physiological changes. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01945-y.

With minimal training, people can communicate silently through a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine by performing mental-imagery tasks that correspond to the 26 letters of the ...