Neuroimaging data is precious, and sometimes not reachable by everyone.
However, the aim of scientists should be to enlarge and sharpen the global knowledge about phenomena. To do this, they should be enthusiast to share their data in order to achieve more goals.
Instead, many people when asked don't agree to share their data with people who's not in their lab. This seems to be in contrast with the global aim.
Why this happens? Does this lack of sharing really lead to some advantage for these people?
I guess most researchers do not want to share their data as long as the project is still running and is not yet published. After completion/publication, I guess more researchers would be willing to share their data. Maybe except for those that are afraid someone using their data might notice that they did something that is considered scientific fraud. However, those that would be willing to share might still argue that they have not analyzed every aspect of the data and might want to publish another paper...which might never happen, so the data will never be shared. Some others might be willing but might not want to spend their time/resources to share the data in a reusable form but rather pursue a new question. Others might not consider their data to be of any value to others as they ran a very specific experiment.
However, I feel that more and more people share their data - IMHO a good development.
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