Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
BMC Med. 2011 Apr 8;9:34. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-34.
During the past two decades, the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has fundamentally changed our understanding of brain-behavior relationships. However, the data from any one study add only incrementally to the big picture. This fact raises important questions about the dominant practice of performing studies in isolation. To what extent are the findings from any single study reproducible? Are researchers who lack the resources to conduct a fMRI study being needlessly excluded? Is pre-existing fMRI data being used effectively to train new students in the field? Here, we will argue that greater sharing and synthesis of raw fMRI data among researchers would make the answers to all of these questions more favorable to scientific discovery than they are today and that such sharing is an important next step for advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience.
在过去的二十年中，功能磁共振成像（fMRI）的出现从根本上改变了我们对大脑与行为关系的理解。然而，任何一项研究的数据都只是对整体情况的增量贡献。这一事实引发了关于孤立进行研究的主导做法的重要问题。从任何一项单独研究中获得的发现有多大程度上可以重现？缺乏进行 fMRI 研究资源的研究人员是否被不必要地排除在外？现有的 fMRI 数据是否被有效地用于培训该领域的新学生？在这里，我们将认为，研究人员之间更广泛地共享和综合原始 fMRI 数据，将使所有这些问题的答案比现在更有利于科学发现，并且这种共享是推动认知神经科学领域发展的重要下一步。
