Reply to Poeppl et al.: Controlling for false positive rates is critical for accurate and consistent interpretation of findings

Ekaterina Mitricheva¹, Rui Kimura¹, Nikos K Logothetis^{1

2}, Hamid R Noori³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology of Congitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
² Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Physiology of Congitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; hamid.noori@tuebingen.mpg.de.

Comment

Ekaterina Mitricheva et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020.

. 2020 May 26;117(21):11206.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916336117. Epub 2020 May 5.

Ekaterina Mitricheva¹, Rui Kimura¹, Nikos K Logothetis^{1

2}, Hamid R Noori³

¹ Department of Physiology of Congitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
² Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Physiology of Congitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; hamid.noori@tuebingen.mpg.de.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interest.

Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent.
Mitricheva E, Kimura R, Logothetis NK, Noori HR. Mitricheva E, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 30;116(31):15671-15676. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1904975116. Epub 2019 Jul 15. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31308220 Free PMC article.
Neural substrates of sexual arousal revisited: Dependent on sex.
Poeppl TB, Sakreida K, Eickhoff SB. Poeppl TB, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 May 26;117(21):11204-11205. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1915927117. Epub 2020 May 5. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020. PMID: 32371493 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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