Ricard J A, Parker T C, Dhamala E, Kwasa J, Allsop A, Holmes A J
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Nat Neurosci. 2023 Jan;26(1):4-11. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01218-y. Epub 2022 Dec 23.
Across the brain sciences, institutions and individuals have begun to actively acknowledge and address the presence of racism, bias, and associated barriers to inclusivity within our community. However, even with these recent calls to action, limited attention has been directed to inequities in the research methods and analytic approaches we use. The very process of science, including how we recruit, the methodologies we utilize and the analyses we conduct, can have marked downstream effects on the equity and generalizability of scientific discoveries across the global population. Despite our best intentions, the use of field-standard approaches can inadvertently exclude participants from engaging in research and yield biased brain-behavior relationships. To address these pressing issues, we discuss actionable ways and important questions to move the fields of neuroscience and psychology forward in designing better studies to address the history of exclusionary practices in human brain mapping.
在脑科学领域，各机构和个人已开始积极认识并应对我们社区中存在的种族主义、偏见以及包容性方面的相关障碍。然而，即便近期有这些行动呼吁，我们对所使用的研究方法和分析方法中的不公平现象关注有限。科学过程本身，包括我们如何招募参与者、采用何种方法以及进行何种分析，可能会对全球人口中科学发现的公平性和普遍性产生显著的下游影响。尽管我们初衷良好，但使用领域标准方法可能会无意中使一些参与者无法参与研究，并产生有偏差的脑与行为关系。为解决这些紧迫问题，我们讨论了可行的方法以及重要问题，以推动神经科学和心理学领域在设计更好的研究方面取得进展，从而解决人类脑图谱中存在的排他性做法的历史问题。
