Leibniz MMS Days 2019 - Abstract

Polzehl, Jörg

Reproducibility in Neuroscience - A best practice example

The last decade has seen intensive discussions on reproducibility in the analysis of neuroimaging experiments. This has lead to efforts in the neuroscience community in various directions, e.g.,

• accessibility of 'minimally processed image and metadata' from large studies for scientific purposes
• public data archives
• open data standards
• open source software and analysis pipelines.

This enables, e.g.,

• the development of best practice analysis strategies
• combination of findings from different studies
• test of and comparisons with alternative modeling approaches

I'll discuss how this fits, as a best practice example, into the current discussions on reproducibility of research and (open) research data.