Group analysis and the subject factor in functional magnetic resonance imaging: Analysis of fifty right-handed healthy subjects in a semantic language task

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 461-477

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a,b   Lazeyras, François ^a   Pegna, Alan J ^a,c   Annoni, Jean Marie ^a   Khateb, Asaid ^a,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical fMRI; Fixed and random effects; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Gold standard map; Group analysis; Inter individual variability; Language areas; Left hemisphere lateralisation; Sample size; Semantic categorisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; OBSERVER VARIATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 42049121628     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20410     Document Type: Article

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