ds006239 (whole-brain): alignment results (control gate: fail)

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Wang et al. 2025 — word-level phonological and semantic reading tasks in child
 
 - Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340925009692
 - Data: https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds006239/versions/1.0.5
-- Generated: 2026-09-20
+- Generated: 2026-09-21
 - Pipeline: https://github.com/suchirsalhan/cdl-representations-brains-babylms
 
 ## Read this first: does the measurement work?
@@ -221,15 +221,15 @@ rather than language) and an inter-subject noise ceiling.
 | SemLocal | ses-11+   |       48 |        0.208521 |        0.601744 |           3 |
 | SemLocal | ses-11    |       48 |        0.216461 |        0.607091 |           3 |
 
-Model grid: **15 families**, 39816 alignment rows across 8 cells.
+Model grid: **15 families**, 44016 alignment rows across 8 cells.
 
 | | |
 |---|---|
 | mean noise ceiling | 0.413 |
-| best alignment anywhere | 0.0670 |
+| best alignment anywhere | 0.0691 |
 | as a fraction of ceiling | 25.6% |
 | families equivalent to zero (TOST ±0.05) | 15/15 |
-| Pythia scale trend | ρ = -0.288, p = 0.07 |
+| Pythia scale trend | ρ = -0.348, p = 0.03 |
 
 ### Per family
 
@@ -245,10 +245,10 @@ Model grid: **15 families**, 39816 alignment rows across 8 cells.
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 | beetle-fineweb3-eng   |              19 |    -0.0057 |   0.0119 |        0.0504 |                    0.2349 |               0      |
 | pythia-1b-full        |              21 |    -0.0098 |   0.0045 |        0.0461 |                    0.1779 |               0      |
+| pythia-160m-full      |              21 |    -0.0116 |   0.0058 |        0.0423 |                    0.1954 |               0      |
 | pythia-1.4b-full      |              21 |    -0.0135 |   0.0044 |        0.0595 |                    0.2116 |               0      |
-| pythia-160m-full      |               1 |    -0.0174 |   0.0147 |        0.0423 |                    0.1954 |               0.0002 |
-| babylm-gpt2-7         |               4 |    -0.024  |   0.0387 |        0.0629 |                    0.1654 |               0.0496 |
 | babylm-gpt2-5         |               9 |    -0.0262 |   0.0336 |        0.0663 |                    0.1677 |               0.0427 |
+| babylm-gpt2-7         |               9 |    -0.0265 |   0.034  |        0.0691 |                    0.1746 |               0.0457 |
 | babylm-gpt2-3         |               9 |    -0.027  |   0.0336 |        0.067  |                    0.1694 |               0.0471 |
 
 ## Dataset-specific notes

alignment_by_cell.csv

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alignment_by_checkpoint.csv

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alignment_by_family.csv

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summary.json

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training_trend.csv

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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