Naturalistic Stimuli in Functional Imaging: A Benchmark of Intersubject Correlation Stability
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22678025Keywords:
Naturalistic Stimuli in Functional Imaging; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodologyAbstract
Naturalistic Stimuli in Functional Imaging has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for naturalistic stimuli in functional imaging, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.
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