Overview and Motivations of Meta-Analyses

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 

Learning outcome
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Understanding the role of meta-analyses in neuroimaging and the broad families of methods.

Points to cover
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Explain the limitations of single studies in neuroimaging, and the relation to the reproducibility crisis.
Explain the main uses of meta-analyses: synthesizing past results, developing new hypotheses, and interpreting novel results.
Outline the broad families of methods: coordinate- versus image-based methods, and manual versus automated methods.