Effective connectivity: Influence, causality and biophysical modeling

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 339-361

  Valdes Sosa, Pedro A ^a   Roebroeck, Alard ^b   Daunizeau, Jean ^c,d   Friston, Karl ^c  

^a CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic Causal Modeling; EEG; Effective connectivity; FMRI; Granger Causality

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOPHYSICS; CAUSAL MODELING; EFFECTIVE CONNECTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOPHYSICS; CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80051795744     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.058     Document Type: Note

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