Lessons from a catalogue of 6674 brain recordings

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 f...

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Main Authors: Alexis DJ Makin, John Tyson-Carr, Giulia Rampone, Yiovanna Derpsch, Damien Wright, Marco Bertamini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2022-06-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/66388
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2050-084X