What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7197, 2008, Pages 869-878

  Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CARTOGRAPHY; IMAGING METHOD; RESONANCE;

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; NERVE ENDING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

EID: 43049104255     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06976     Document Type: Review

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