2016’s top 100 journal articles
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Natural speech used to map semantic system of cerebral cortex [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Research subjects listened to narrative stories while brain responses were recorded by fMRI. Voxel-wise modelling was then used to estimate…
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Both positive and negative emotions can cause physical heart stress [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Positive events such as birthday parties, weddings, and the birth of a grandchild have been found to be triggers of…
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Statisticians respond to misuse and misinterpretation of “statistical significance” (p-values) in research
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has released a formal statement clarifying several widely agreed upon principles underlying the proper use…
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Validity of countless functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in doubt [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
The three main fMRI software packages were found to produce a high degree of false positives.
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Researchers map human cortex & train machine-learning classifier to assist future studies [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
A recent study has created the most accurate map of the human cortex to date.
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A controversial view on data sharing [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
The editors of a medical journal sparked controversy by describing some researchers as "research parasites".
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Gender differences and bias in an open source software community [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Contributions by women tend to be accepted more often than those by men, but only when women's gender is not…
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The brain adapts to dishonesty [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
A new study finds evidence for a gradual escalation of self-serving dishonesty and reveals the neural mechanism supporting it.
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Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Google's AlphaGo, which beat the strongest player of the game Go in the world, combines an advanced tree search with…