Better ways to improve standards in brain-behavior correlation analysis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Samuel Schwarzkopf, D ^a   de Haas, Benjamin ^b   Rees, Geraint ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; RELIABILITY; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84864223317     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00200     Document Type: Article

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