Multivariate granger causality analysis of fMRI data

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1361-1373

  Deshpande, Gopikrishna ^a   LaConte, Stephan ^a   James, George Andrew ^a   Peltier, Scott ^a   Hu, Xiaoping ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

Graph theoretic analysis; Multivariate Granger causality; Neural effects of prolonged motor performance and fatigue; Temporal dynamics of brain networks

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE GRANGER CAUSALITY ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849087355     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20606     Document Type: Article

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