Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuroimaging Data for Social and Behavioral Science Research

该奖项为将于2011年9月在华盛顿大都会区举行的社会和行为科学研究神经影像数据统计分析研讨会提供支持。 研讨会将召集一个多学科的专家组，在磁共振成像，统计学，社会和行为科学，以解决有关的问题，分析功能磁共振成像数据的性质和社会和行为科学的性质的问题，合理地可以回答功能磁共振成像实验。 特别是，研讨会将集中在以下问题：（1）什么样的实验设计是适当的，什么可以或不能从这些设计中学习？（2）什么是“适当的”统计分析，什么统计方法是不适当的？自20世纪90年代中期以来，神经影像学已经从几乎完全的临床科学转变为在社会和行为科学中广泛应用的实验工具。 然而，对于如何分析神经成像实验的数据，人们并没有达成普遍的共识。 本次研讨会将促进神经成像技术，数据分析，以及可以用这些方法解决的社会和行为科学问题之间的相互作用急需的对话。 向更广泛的研究界传播的计划包括为研讨会建立一个网站和在一份神经科学杂志上收集论文。

This award provides support for a Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuroimaging Data for Social and Behavioral Science Research, to be held during September 2011 in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The workshop will convene a multidisciplinary group of experts in magnetic resonance imaging, statistics, and the social and behavioral sciences to address questions concerning the nature of the analysis of fMRI data and the nature of social and behavioral science questions that reasonably can be answered by fMRI experimentation. In particular, the workshop will focus on the following issues: (1) What experimental designs are appropriate and what can or cannot be learned with these designs? and (2) What are "proper" statistical analyses and what statistical methods are inappropriate?Since the mid-1990s, neuroimaging has moved from being almost exclusively a clinical science to an experimental tool with widespread application in the social and behavioral sciences. There is, however, no general agreement on how to analyze data from neuroimaging experiments. This workshop will facilitate a much needed dialogue on the interplay between neuroimaging techniques, data analysis, and the social and behavioral science questions that can be addressed with these approaches. Plans for dissemination to the broader research community include a web site for the workshop and a collection of papers in a neuroscience journal.