A comparison of the mean signal change method and the voxel count method to evaluate the sensitivity of individual variability in visuospatial performance

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 418, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-142

  Chung, Soon Cheol ^a   Sohn, Jin Hun ^b   Lee, Bongsoo ^a   Tack, Gye Rae ^a   Yi, Jeong Han ^a   You, Ji Hye ^a   Kwon, Ji Hun ^a   Kim, Hyun Jun ^c   Lee, Soo Yeol ^d  

^a Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BOLD; fMRI; Mean signal change; Visuospatial performance; Voxel count

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEAN SIGNAL CHANGE METHOD; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOXEL COUNT METHOD;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247352099     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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