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Prominent German neuroscientist committed misconduct in ‘brain-reading’ research

German funding agency imposes strict sanctions on Niels Birbaumer, whose studies it says contained incomplete data — but Birbaumer stands by his results.
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A prominent German neuroscientist committed scientific misconduct in research in which he claimed to have developed a brain-monitoring technique able to read certain thoughts of paralysed people, Germany’s main research agency has found.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02862-4

References

  1. Chaudhary, U., Xia, B., Silvoni, S., Cohen, L. G. & Birbaumer, N. PLoS Biol 15, e1002593 (2017).

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  2. Chaudhary, U., Pathak, S. & Birbaumer, N. PLoS Biol. 17, e3000063 (2019).

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