What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis

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There’s also the fact that fMRI is notoriously unreliable:...

User madskills42001, in the Neuropsychology: Links, Resources, and Discussion subreddit, 01 Apr 2026

There’s also the fact that fMRI is notoriously unreliable: most studies only have 30 participants and it has poor test-retest…

This unfortunately really just isn’t true. There are some...

User cakericeandbeans, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 17 Feb 2026

This unfortunately really just isn’t true. There are some promising studies at the group level, but fmri correlates of…

1) That's not rven what the research says, [by a long...

User Healthy_Sky_4593, in the psychologymemes subreddit, 25 Dec 2025

1) That's not rven what the research says, [by a long shot](https://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/mapping-brain-changes-in-pos…

Unfortunately fMRI may not be scientifically A Duke...

User madskills42001, in the A subreddit for all things imaging in neuroscience subreddit, 03 Dec 2025

Unfortunately fMRI may not be scientifically valid: A Duke reanalysis of 56 published academic studies based on fMRI analysis...

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