From Many Scanned Brains to Many Brain Scans: Leveraging Large Datasets with Dense Sampling for New Insights in Psychological Science

Recent advances in cognitive, clinical, and developmental neuroscience have offered methodological recommendations for psychological research that employs brain imaging measures. One line of work has highlighted the statistical necessity of studies to include hundreds (if not thousands) of participants, for reliable insights into brain-behavior relationships. An emerging alternative focuses instead on dense sampling, acquiring multiple scans of a small number of people. This symposium will bring together experts from both approaches, to discuss the challenges and opportunities of these new methodological approaches for psychological science, and the powerful ways in which they can advance our understanding of human behavior.