[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14797-14798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05301]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Findings of Research Misconduct
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity
(ORI)
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has taken final action in the following case:
Adam C. Savine, Washington University in St. Louis: Based on the
report from Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) and Respondent's
admission, ORI found that Mr. Adam C. Savine, former doctoral student,
Department of Psychology, WUSTL, engaged in research misconduct in
research supported by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant R56 MH066078, National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH, grants F31 DA032152 and R21
DA027821, and National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH, grant T32
AG00030.
ORI found that the Respondent engaged in research misconduct by
falsifying data that were included in the following three publications
and six conference abstracts:
Publications
1. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. ``Local and global effects of
motivation on cognitive control.'' Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci.
12(4):692-718, 2012 Dec. (hereafter referred to as Cogn Affect Behav
Neurosci. 2012).
2. Savine, A.C., McDaniel, M.A., Shelton, J.T., Scullin, M.K.
``A characterization of individual differences in prospective memory
monitoring using the Complex Ongoing Serial Task.'' J Exp Psychol
Gen. 141(2):337-62, 2012 May (hereafter referred to as J Exp Psychol
Gen. 2012).
3. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. ``Motivated cognitive control:
Reward incentives modulate preparatory neural activity during task-
switching.'' J Neurosci. 30(31):10294-305, 2010 Aug 4 (hereafter
referred to as J Neurosci. 2010).
Conference Abstracts
1. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. (November 2010) ``The contextual
and local effects of motivation on cognitive control.'' Psychonomics
Society, St. Louis, MO.
2. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. (November 2010) ``A model-based
characterization of the individual differences in prospective memory
monitoring.'' Psychonomics Society, St. Louis, MO.
3. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. (November 2010) ``Motivated
cognitive control: Reward incentives modulate preparatory neural
activity during task-switching.'' Society for Neuroscience, San
Diego, CA.
4. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. (June 2010) ``Motivated
cognitive control: Reward incentives modulate preparatory neural
activity during task-switching.'' Motivation and Cognitive Control
Conference, Oxford, England.
5. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. (January 2010) ``Neural
correlates of the motivation/cognitive control interaction:
Activation dynamics and Performance prediction during task-
switching.'' Genetic and Experiential Influences on Executive
Function, Boulder, CO.
6. Savine, A.C., & Braver, T.S. (June 2009) ``Incentive Induced
Changes in Neural Patterns During Task-Switching.'' Organization for
Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA.
As a result of the Respondent's admission, the senior authors will
request that the published papers be retracted or corrected.
ORI finds that Respondent falsified data and related text in Cogn
Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012, J Exp Psychol Gen. 2012, J Neurosci. 2010,
and in six (6) meeting abstracts, by altering the experimental data to
improve the statistical results. Specifically, Respondent:
1. Falsified data in Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012 to show an
unambiguous dissociation between local and global motivational effects.
Specifically, Respondent exaggerated (1) the effect of incentive
context on response times and error rates in Table 1 and Figures 1 and
3 for experiment 1 and (2) the effect of incentive cue timing on
response times and error rates in Table 2 and in Figures 6, 9, and S2
for experiment 2.
2. Falsified data in J Exp Psychol Gen. 2012 to show that
prospective memory is influenced by three dissociable underlying
monitoring patterns (attentional focus, secondary memory retrieval,
information thresholding), which are stable within individuals over
time and are influenced by personality and cognitive differences.
Specifically, Respondent modified the data to support the three
category model and to show (1) that individuals fitting into each of
the three categories exhibited differential patterns of prospective
memory performance and ongoing task performance in Tables 1-3; Figures
5-8, and (2) that certain cognitive and personality differences were
predictive of distinct monitoring approaches within the three
categories in Figure 9.
3. Falsified data in J Neurosci. 2010 and mislabeled brain images
to show that motivational incentives enhance task-switching performance
and are associated with activation of reward-related brain regions,
behavioral performance, and trial outcomes. Specifically, Respondent
modified the data so that he could show a stronger relationship between
brain activity and behavior in Table 2 and Figure 4 and used brain
images that fit the data rather than the images that corresponded to
the actual Talairach coordinates in Figure 3.
Mr. Savine has entered into a Voluntary Settlement Agreement and
has voluntarily agreed for a period of three (3) years, beginning on
February 22, 2013:
(1) To have his research supervised; Respondent agreed that prior
to the submission of an application for U.S. Public Health Service
(PHS) support for a research project on which his participation is
proposed and prior to his participation in any capacity on PHS-
supported research, Respondent shall ensure that a plan for supervision
of his duties is submitted to ORI for approval; the supervision plan
must be designed to ensure the scientific integrity of his research
contribution; he agreed that he shall not participate in any PHS-
supported research until such a supervision plan is submitted to and
approved by ORI; Respondent agreed to maintain responsibility for
compliance with the agreed upon supervision plan;
(2) That any institution employing him shall submit, in conjunction
with each application for PHS funds, or report, manuscript, or abstract
involving PHS-supported research in which Respondent is involved, a
certification to ORI that the data provided by Respondent are based on
actual experiments or are otherwise legitimately derived and that the
data, procedures, and methodology are accurately reported in the
application, report, manuscript, or abstract;
(3) To exclude himself voluntarily from serving in any advisory
capacity to PHS including, but not limited to, service on any PHS
advisory committee, board, and/or peer review committee, or as a
consultant; and
(4) That the senior authors will request that the following papers
be retracted or corrected: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012, J Exp
Psychol Gen. 2012, and J Neurosci. 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Office of Research
Integrity, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750, Rockville, MD 20852, (240)
453-8200.
David E. Wright,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
[FR Doc. 2013-05301 Filed 3-6-13; 8:45 am]
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