Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging

Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Published online: 02 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41583-026-01038-0 Despite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guidelines operating at the level of study design, analysis pipelines and interpretation of findings to encourage the development of best practices in data contextualization in neuroscience.