Comments on: fMRI becomes big, big science

By: Clarke L. Caywood

Clarke L. Caywood — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:53:48 +0000

Social science colleagues stare at me in disbelief when I mention the lab author competition. I learned it from my neuroscientist son from UCSF. Our little fMRI research group of 9 at Northwestern exploring consumer and stakeholder questions; may not be enough.

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Wednesday Round Up #107 « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:13:41 +0000

[...] Archive, fMRI Becomes Big, Big Science The growing popularity of fMRIs as shown through teams of [...]

By: Navymicro

Navymicro — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:46:29 +0000

Does anyone remember the Scince publication of the sequencing of the human genome. It had well over 100 authors…. and they think 54 is alot…

By: tal

tal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:53:01 +0000

Well, clearly the ATLAS folks are cheating. We all know there aren’t 2,700 particle physicists on Earth. So either they’re importing them from extrasolar planets, or something funny’s going on. Either way, it isn’t a fair fight…

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:47:58 +0000

I think the record is set by the particle physics experiment ATLAS at the LHC in Geneva. With 2700 collaborators and counting…

By: tal

tal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:10:41 +0000

Big Magna has a nice ring to it, I think… let’s discuss it at the next meeting of the Cognominati.

By: Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:43:40 +0000

Now that fMRI is officially big science, it’s only a matter of time before we start getting conspiracy theories about it, but what will the conspiracists call the cognitive neuroscience establishment? Big Scanner? Big Magnet? Big Blob?