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

该奖项将为2011年9月在华盛顿特区举办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小组，包括磁共振成像、统计学、社会和行为科学，以解决有关功能磁共振成像数据分析的性质以及社会和行为科学问题的性质的问题，这些问题可以通过功能磁共振成像实验合理地回答。研讨会将特别关注以下问题：(1)什么样的实验设计是合适的，这些设计可以或不能学到什么？(2)什么是“适当的”统计分析，什么是不适当的统计方法？自20世纪90年代中期以来，神经影像学已经从几乎完全是一种临床科学转变为一种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，目前还没有普遍的共识。本次研讨会将促进神经成像技术、数据分析和社会和行为科学问题之间的相互作用的对话，这些问题可以用这些方法来解决。向更广泛的研究界传播的计划包括一个研讨会的网站和一本神经科学杂志的论文集。

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.