Brain, Data, and Science

Welcome to the Brain, Data, and Science blog

Jörn Diedrichsen

Papers are often too long and too cumbersome to write. Tweets are too short to say anything with the necessary level of detail.

First published: 10/11/2021

How to set up a blog

Jörn Diedrichsen

This is a blog that gives examples of how to set up and format new blogs

First published: 10/11/2021

Estimating correlations between noisy activity patterns. A tricky problem with a generative solution.

Jörn Diedrichsen, Giacomo Ariani, Eva Berlot

In neuroimaging, we often want to assess how overlapping two brain activity patterns are. But estimating the true correlation between patterns can be extremely tricky.

First published: 10/11/2021

Rethinking peer review

Jörn Diedrichsen

Today, eLife announced a radical change - it will not reject papers after review anymore.

First published: 10/20/2022

Open review of “A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex” (Gordon et al., 2023)

Dollyane Muret, Tamar Makin, Jörn Diedrichsen

Does the evidence for three inter-effector regions within primary motor cortex hold up?

First published: 04/27/2023

Making sense of the cerebellar BOLD signal

Jörn Diedrichsen, Ladan Shahshahani, Ince Husain, Richard B. Ivry

Imaging the cerebellum is like looking into a clear mountain lake. You do not see what is going on under the surface (the activity of Purkinje cells), but rather you see the reflection of the surrounding mountains in the lake (i.e. how cortical activity arrives in the granule cell layer).

First published: 12/15/2024