When and How to Interpret Null Results in NIBS: A Taxonomy Based on Prior Expectations and Experimental Design.

But, again independently of our lack of surprise, we would find the null result much more informative if we had neuronavigated the TMS coil to individual hotspots as compared to placing the TMS coil over the EEG 10-20 P4 location (sophisticated localization procedure), or if the reduction in magic appreciation was zero as compared to a reduction in magic appreciation that was in the right direction but just failed to reach significance (effect size evaluation).

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