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ArticleeNeuro

Against the Epistemological Primacy of the Hardware: The Brain from Inside Out, Turned Upside Down.

David Poeppel, Federico Adolfi

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Decide, act, reflect, and maybe a self in all this?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. The Problem-Ladenness of Theory.Computational brain & behavior · 2024
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  8. A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David PoeppelMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt 60322, Germany david.poeppel@nyu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0184-163X
Federico AdolfiMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt 60322, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4202-5252

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Before he wrote the recent book

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BrainNeurosciencesCognitionHumansMaleRetrospective Studies

Identifiers

PMID32769167
PMCPMC7415919

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