TY - JOUR AU - Rousselet, Guillaume AU - Pernet, Cyril PY - 2012 M3 - Perspective TI - Improving standards in brain-behavior correlation analyses JO - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00119 VL - 6 SN - 1662-5161 N2 - Associations between two variables, for instance between brain and behavioral measurements, are often studied using correlations, and in particular Pearson correlation. However, Pearson correlation is not robust: outliers can introduce false correlations or mask existing ones. These problems are exacerbated in brain imaging by a widespread lack of control for multiple comparisons, and several issues with data interpretations. We illustrate these important problems associated with brain-behavior correlations, drawing examples from published articles. We make several propositions to alleviate these problems. ER -