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IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study - Scientific American Blog Network

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I have to say that I am incredibly pleased that this study won the Ignobel. Not just because it'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 are published. And so, I present to you: the dead salmon study. Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010. This study began as a fun trial, and almost never saw the light of day. But since it has, it has become a really important study in the field of functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures changes in blood oxygenation levels in the brain during tasks (usually in humans). These studies are widely used and very widely c

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