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Reading list: Meta analysis

Taylor Salo edited this page Apr 22, 2018 · 4 revisions

A list of papers about meta-analysis and meta-analysis-related analyses in neuroimaging

Introduction to meta-analysis

Neuroimaging meta-analysis

  • Müller, V. I., Cieslik, E. C., Laird, A. R., Fox, P. T., Radua, J., Mataix-Cols, D., ... & Wager, T. D. (2017). Ten simple rules for neuroimaging meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.11.012
    • This paper brings together a large number of meta-analysts to provide guidelines for performing neuroimaging meta-analyses.

Image-based meta-analysis

  • Maumet, C., & Nichols, T. E. (2016). Minimal Data Needed for Valid & Accurate Image-Based fMRI Meta-Analysis. bioRxiv, 048249. doi: 10.1101/048249
    • Describes the image-based meta-analysis methods available to neuroimagers, as well as each method's validity.

Coordinate-based meta-analysis

The most readily available results from fMRI studies are coordinates- locations of peak activations reported in a standard brain space. While coordinates are less informative than unthresholded statistical images, the logic of coordinate-based meta-analyses is that, with enough studies, peak coordinates in regions related to an experimental manipulation will appear at a detectably higher rate than ones in unrelated regions (i.e., false positives).

  • Samartsidis, P., Montagna, S., Nichols, T. E., & Johnson, T. D. (2017). The coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data. Statistical science: a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 32(4), 580. doi: 10.1214/17-STS624
    • Describes each of the most prevalent coordinate-based meta-analytic algorithms in detail, including the much-ignored model-based methods.

Functional characterization analysis

Functional characterization analysis, also known as open-ended functional decoding or reverse inference, refers to a range of methods which attempt to predict mental states, phenotypes, or diagnoses from neural states (e.g., fMRI results). A separate collection of methods, often referred to simply as "decoding," attempt to perform a similar task, but generally use classifiers on within-subject data to predict from a restricted number of mental states or phenotypes. Conversely, functional characterization analysis uses meta-analytic databases, which ostensibly contain a wider range of mental and neural states than can be acquired within a given experiment, in order to predict across the entire range of potential mental states. As such, what functional characterization analysis loses in accuracy (as compared to decoding), it makes up for in generalizability.

  • Poldrack, R. A. (2011). Inferring mental states from neuroimaging data: from reverse inference to large-scale decoding. Neuron, 72(5), 692-697. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.11.001
  • Rubin, T. N., Koyejo, O., Gorgolewski, K. J., Jones, M. N., Poldrack, R. A., & Yarkoni, T. (2017). Decoding brain activity using a large-scale probabilistic functional-anatomical atlas of human cognition. PLoS computational biology, 13(10), e1005649. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005649