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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A map of visual space in the primate entorhinal cortex

   Killian, Jutras and Buffalo · Nature · 2012

   Recording from the entorhinal cortex of head-fixed monkeys viewing images, the authors report neurons with grid-like firing tied to where the monkey looked, which they describe as grid cells in primates.

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   1. UncheckedSome neurons in monkeys' entorhinal cortex fired at gaze locations arranged in a repeating triangular, hexagonal-looking pattern across the visual field.“These firing fields possessed spatial periodicity similar to a triangular tiling with a corresponding well-defined hexagonal structure in the spatial autocorrelation.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Can parametric statistical methods be trusted for fMRI based group studies?

   Anders, Thomas and Hans · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

   Using 2 million random group analyses on resting-state fMRI data, the authors tested the error rates of SPM, FSL and AFNI and found cluster-wise inference often invalid, unlike a permutation test.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's follow-up analyses suggest invalid cluster inferences in fMRI stem from spatial autocorrelation that is not Gaussian-shaped, as the methods assume.“We conduct a number of follow up analyses and investigations that suggest the cause of the invalid cluster inferences is spatial auto correlation functions that do not follow the assumed Gaussian shape.”
   2. UncheckedA non-parametric permutation test, which relies on few assumptions, gave valid results for both voxel-wise and cluster-wise inference in these fMRI group analyses.“By comparison, the non-parametric permutation test, which is based on a small number of assumptions, is found to produce valid results for voxel as well as cluster wise inference.”