Fixation based event-related fMRI analysis: Using eye fixations as events in functional magnetic resonance imaging to reveal cortical processing during the free exploration of visual images

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 307-318

  Marsman, Jan Bernard C ^a   Renken, Remco ^a   Velichkovsky, Boris M ^b   Hooymans, Johanna M M ^a   Cornelissen, Frans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Fixation based event related fMRI; Haemodynamic response functions; Multivariate pattern analysis; Natural viewing behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE;

BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84855930643     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21211     Document Type: Article

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