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The impact of sample size on the reproducibility of voxel-based lesion-deficit mappings.
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Neuropsychologia [Neuropsychologia] 2018 Jul 01; Vol. 115, pp. 101-111. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Mar 15. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study investigated how sample size affects the reproducibility of findings from univariate voxel-based lesion-deficit analyses (e.g., voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping and voxel-based morphometry). Our effect of interest was the strength of the mapping between brain damage and speech articulation difficulties, as measured in terms of the proportion of variance explained. First, we identified a region of interest by searching on a voxel-by-voxel basis for brain areas where greater lesion load was associated with poorer speech articulation using a large sample of 360 right-handed English-speaking stroke survivors. We then randomly drew thousands of bootstrap samples from this data set that included either 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, or 360 patients. For each resample, we recorded effect size estimates and p values after conducting exactly the same lesion-deficit analysis within the previously identified region of interest and holding all procedures constant. The results show (1) how often small effect sizes in a heterogeneous population fail to be detected; (2) how effect size and its statistical significance varies with sample size; (3) how low-powered studies (due to small sample sizes) can greatly over-estimate as well as under-estimate effect sizes; and (4) how large sample sizes (N ≥ 90) can yield highly significant p values even when effect sizes are so small that they become trivial in practical terms. The implications of these findings for interpreting the results from univariate voxel-based lesion-deficit analyses are discussed.<br /> (Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Brain diagnostic imaging
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Recognition, Psychology physiology
Regression Analysis
Reproducibility of Results
Stroke diagnostic imaging
Young Adult
Brain pathology
Brain Mapping
Sample Size
Stroke pathology
Stroke physiopathology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-3514
- Volume :
- 115
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Neuropsychologia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 29550526
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.014