A comparison of Granger causality and coherency in fMRI-based analysis of the motor system

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3475-3494

  Kayser, Andrew S ^a   Sun, Felice T ^a   D'Esposito, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherency; Connectivity; Information processing; Mutual information; Primary motor cortex; Supplementary motor area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350322704     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20771     Document Type: Article

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