Widespread functional connectivity and fMRI fluctuations in human visual cortex in the absence of visual stimulation

NeuroImage

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1313-1324

  Nir, Yuval ^a   Hasson, Uri ^b   Levy, Ifat ^b   Yeshurun, Yehezkel ^c   Malach, Rafael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

De coherence; Functional connectivity; Ongoing activity; Rest activity; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARKNESS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LUMINANCE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; DARK ADAPTATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REST; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STATISTICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646156388     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.018     Document Type: Article

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