Lessons from a catalogue of 6674 brain recordings.

Makin, Alexis D J; Tyson-Carr, John; Rampone, Giulia; Derpsch, Yiovanna; Wright, Damien; Bertamini, Marco · Elife · 2022

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Abstract

It is now possible for scientists to publicly catalogue all the data they have ever collected on one phenomenon. For a decade, we have been measuring a brain response to visual symmetry called the sustained posterior negativity (SPN). Here we report how we have made a total of 6674 individual SPNs from 2215 participants publicly available, along with data extraction and visualization tools (https://osf.io/2sncj/). We also report how re-analysis of the SPN catalogue has shed light on aspects of the scientific process, such as statistical power and publication bias, and revealed new scientific insights.

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