Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
401-03-009 ISMRM Abstract

Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation

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Paul A Taylor 1, Himanshu Aggarwal2, Peter A Bandettini1, Marco Barilari3, Molly Bright4, César Caballero-Gaudes5,6, Vince D Calhoun7,8,9, Mallar Chakravarty10,11, Gabriel A Devenyi10,11, Jennifer W Evans12, Eduardo Garza-Villarreal13, Jalil Rasgado-Toledo13, Remi Gau2, Daniel Glen14, Rainer Goebel15,16, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo12, Omer Faruk Gulban15,16, Yaroslav Halchenko17, Daniel Handwerker12, Taylor Hanayik18, Peter D Lauren12, David Leopold12, Jason Lerch18,19, Christian Mathys20, Paul McCarthy18, Anke McLeod21, Amanda Mejia22, Stefano Moia23, Thomas Nichols24, Cyril Pernet25, Luiz Pessoa26, Bettina Pfleiderer27, Justin K Rajendra12, Laura Reyes28, Richard C Reynolds12, Vinai Roopchansingh12, Chris Rorden29, Brian E Russ30,31, Benedikt Sundermann20,32, Bertrand Thirion2, Salvatore Torrisi33,34, Gang Chen12
1National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, United States of America
2Inria, Saclay, France
3Crossmodal Perception and Plasticity Lab, Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS) and Institute of Research in Psychology (IPSY), Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
4Northwestern University, Chicago, United States of America
5Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
6Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian - Donostia, Spain
7Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Atlanta, United States of America
8Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States of America
9Emory/Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United States of America
10Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Canada
11McGill University, Montreal, Canada
12National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, United States of America
13Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Juriquilla, Mexico
14Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, United States of America
15Brain innovation B.V., Maastricht, Netherlands
16Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
17Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States of America
18Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, United Kingdom
19University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
20Universitätsmedizin Oldenburg, Germany
21Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
22Indiana University, Bloomington, United States of America
23Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, FPN, Maastricht University, Netherlands
24Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
25Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Denmark
26University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America
27University of Münster, Münster, Germany
28National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
29McCausland Center for Brain Imaging, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, United States of America
30Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, United States of America
31Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States of America
32University Muenster, Münster, Germany
33University Of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America
34San Francisco Veteran Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, United States of America
Presenting Author: Paul A Taylor

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