A graphical approach for evaluating effective connectivity in neural systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1457, 2005, Pages 953-967

  Eichler, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Granger causality; Graphical models; Multivariate time series; Spurious causality

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 25444446654     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1641     Document Type: Article

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