title: The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience.
abstract: Over the last 20 years, fMRI has revolutionized cognitive neuroscience. Here I outline a vision for what the next 20 years of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience might look like. Some developments that I hope for include increased methodological rigor, an increasing focus on connectivity and pattern analysis as opposed to "blobology", a greater focus on selective inference powered by open databases, and increased use of ontologies and computational models to describe underlying processes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neurobiology and Imaging Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78759, USA. poldrack@mail.utexas.edu
authors.forename: Russell A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Poldrack
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*