Brain-behavior correlations: Two paths toward reliability

Caterina Gratton; Steven M. Nelson; Evan M. Gordon

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2022.04.018

Brain-behavior correlations: Two paths toward reliability

Caterina Gratton, Steven M. Nelson, Evan M. Gordon

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In a recent issue of Nature, Marek et al. (2022) demonstrate that cross-sectional brain-behavior correlations are often small and unreliable without large samples. This observation pushes human neuroscience toward study designs that either maximize sample sizes to detect small effects or maximize effect sizes using focused investigations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1446-1449
Number of pages	4
Journal	Neuron
Volume	110
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.04.018
State	Published - May 4 2022
Externally published	Yes

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