IBIC journal club - Preregistered Replication: Boekel 2015

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A discussion of the paper that won the inaugural replication award at OHBM, as well as issues surrounding preregistration and the replication crisis. Link to the recording here (requires UWNetID - hosted on Panopto)

References and links to the papers we discussed:

The original Paper:
Boekel, W., Wagenmakers, E. J., Belay, L., Verhagen, J., Brown, S., & Forstmann, B. U. (2015). A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations. Cortex, 66, 115-133.

The two associated replies:
Muhlert, N., & Ridgway, G. R. (2016). Failed replications, contributing factors and careful interpretations: Commentary on “A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behaviour correlations” by Boekel et al., 2015. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 74, 338.

Kanai, R. (2016). Open questions in conducting confirmatory replication studies: Commentary on Boekel et al., 2015. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 74, 343-347.

The rejoinder:
Boekel, W., Forstmann, B. U., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2016). Challenges in replicating brainbehavior correlations: Rejoinder to Kanai (2015) and Muhlert and Ridgway (2015). cortex, 74, 348-352.

And the corrigendum:
Keuken, M. C., Ly, A., Boekel, W., Wagenmakers, E. J., Belay, L., Verhagen, J., … & Forstmann, B. U. (2017). Corrigendum to” A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations”[Cortex 66 (2015) 115-133]. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 93, 229-233.