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STUDY ALERT: What is the most interesting part of the brain?

December 29, 2012 in Study Alerts

 

What is the most interesting part of the brain? 

Timothy E.J. Behrens, Peter Fox, Angie Laird, and Stephen M. Smith

Creative ideas and rigorous analysis are the hallmarks of much impactful science. However, there is an oft-aired suspicion in the neuroscience community that some scientists start with an advantage, simply because of the brain region or behaviour they study. We tested this unstated hypothesis by regressing the journal impact factor against both the pattern of brain activity and the experimental keywords across thousands of brain imaging studies. We found the results to be illuminating.

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