When and How to Interpret Null Results in NIBS: A Taxonomy Based on Prior Expectations and Experimental Design
Experiments often challenge the null hypothesis that an intervention, for instance application of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), has no effect on an outcome measure. In conventional statistics, a positive result rejects that hypothesis, but a null result is meaningless. Informally, however,...
Main Authors: | Tom A. de Graaf, Alexander T. Sack |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-12-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2018.00915/full |
Similar Items
-
Where Are the fMRI Correlates of Phosphene Perception?
by: Tom A. de Graaf, et al.
Published: (2018-12-01) -
Using Brain Stimulation to Disentangle Neural Correlates of Conscious Vision
by: Tom Alexander de Graaf, et al.
Published: (2014-09-01) -
Thinking caps for everyone?The role of neuro-enhancement by non-invasive brain stimulation in neuroscience and beyond
by: Felix eDuecker, et al.
Published: (2014-04-01) -
Spatially specific versus unspecific disruption of visual orientation perception using chronometric pre-stimulus TMS
by: Tom Alexander De Graaf, et al.
Published: (2015-01-01) -
When discourse met null subjects
by: Angel Jimenez-Fernandez
Published: (2016-12-01)