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fMRI Methods Wiki

This site is meant for ongoing discussion and editing of a set of minimally acceptable standards for the reporting of research studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Rationale

The goal of this site is to provide guidance to researchers, in order to ensure that fMRI papers contain adequate detail to assess the methods and understand the results. This effort is similar in spirit to standards in other areas of biomedical science, such as the CONSORT statement for clinical trials and the MIAME standards for microarray studies.

Membership

Anyone can view the standards pages on this site. Membership in the fMRI Methods Working Group provides the ability to contribute to the standards by editing and discussing pages on this system, and is open to any researcher with documented experience in fMRI research (e.g., published papers). If you are interested in joining the group, send an email to poldrack at ucla dot edu; please include a copy of your CV.

Standards

• Experimental design
• Human subjects
• Data acquisition
• Data preprocessing
• Statistical modeling
• Statistical inference
• Figures and tables

Example methods section

• Event-related design example

Additional guidelines

• Reporting fMRI results