False-Positive fMRI Hits The Mainstream - Neuroskeptic

A new paper in PNAS has made waves. The article, called Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates, comes from Swedish neuroscientists Anders Eklund, Tom Nichols, and Hans Knutsson. According to many of the headlines that greeted “Cluster failure”, the paper is a devastating bombshell that could demolish the whole …