Session 12 - Toward an open science ecosystem in neuroimaging

Neuroimaging studies involve complex data collection and analysis, and the resulting data can be organized and shared in different ways.  Although they require the establishment of good research data management, there is no consensus on how to organize and share neuroimaging data. Dr. Russel Poldrack will discuss the features of neuroimaging data and data sharing.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the particular features of neuroimaging that make it especially amenable to data sharing
2. Describe the role of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) in neuroimaging data sharing
3. For any particular neuroimaging data type, determine the most appropriate open data archive for sharing those data
4. Describe the major lessons learned about data sharing in the field of neuroimaging.

About the speaker:

Dr. Poldrack received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Baylor University and his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1995 to 1999, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 2014, he held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, UCLA, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor of Psychology at Stanford University, a member of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute, and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience.