Abstract
Because terminology varies widely from study-to-study, and even more so from discipline-to-discipline, the neuroimaging literature is becoming increasingly complex to navigate. For examples: (1) terminology changes over time (e.g., alcoholism to alcohol use disorders), (2) a single term can have many—or even amorphous—definitions (e.g., MVPA as multi-voxel or multivariate pattern analysis, which itself spans numerous different techniques) and (3) multiple terms describe the same concept (e.g., in vision studies “striate cortex,” “calcarine sulcus,” “V1,” “primary visual cortex,” and “Brodmann area 17,” all describe, essentially, the same brain region in functional neuroimaging). Such a diversity of terminologies makes interpretations, reviews, and meta-analyses of the literature difficult to perform and consume. As the volume of scientific questions across neuroimaging has grown—and with this growth, the evolution of terminology across neuroimaging—it is important to clarify: What are the primary domains of neuroimaging and what are their most commonly reported brain regions?
