2023 was an exciting year for the Neurosynth team, with the public launch of the Compose platform: https://compose.neurosynth.org
In the December we saw over 500 new user visits, with 200+ sign ups! 🚀
Help us keep this growth going by sharing our announcement 🧑🔬
🌟 What’s New 🌟
In January, we've added new features and continued to improve the user experience. Here are some highlights:
Large-scale association tests
A feature that sets Neurosynth apart is large-scale association maps.
Whereas a typical meta-analysis tells you if activity is consistently reported, an association test tells you if activation occurs more consistently in your set of studies versus a large-scale reference sample.
That's important, because that means you can control for differences in base rate of activation. Certain regions, such as the insula or lateral PFC, play a broad role in cognition, and are consistently activated across many many different tasks. Using MKDA Chi-Squared, you can test if brain activity in a region (such as the insula) is specifically associated with the studies in your meta-analysis.
You can now you can perform custom association tests for your meta-analyses in Neurosynth Compose! Check out the tutorial below, including an example from a recent meta-analysis on social processing. Check out our tutorial, including an example from a recent meta-analysis on social processing: https://neurostuff.github.io/compose-doc...
✨UX Enhancements ✨
Based on your feedback, we've made many fixes and improvements:
- Simplified Curation: Importing studies is faster and streamlined!
- Searching UI: It's now easier to choose your preferred search method, and we auto-generate search import names. In addition, resolving duplicates is skipped if none are present.
- Improved Editing Workflow: The editing interface has been improved, streamlining data extraction.
- Various UX Improvements and Fixes: We fixed many UX papercuts, especially in the Extraction phase.
Remember, we want your feedback! Feel free to email us directly, or ask a question on Neurostars: https://neurostars.org/tag/neurosynth-co...
Cheers,
The Neurosynth Team 🧠