Digital Paper

Every scientific journal article is now a pdf. However, most journals treat pdfs as digital paper. That is similar to thinking about cars like faster horses. Both are limited viewpoints. Neuroimaging is inherently multidimensional. The richness of the data can not be conveyed in a table and a screen capture. Supplemental materials, when they are available, are more tables and 2-d images. The next logical step in my own research is a video stepping through all brain slices. Why stop there? How about an 3-d image viewer for fMRI results? That would allow the reader to view any part of the brain from any viewpoint. How about a screencast of experimental procedures? That would be a better way to convey attentional blink paradigms.