Subject-specific functional localizers increase sensitivity and functional resolution of multi-subject analyses

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1646-1669

  Nieto Castañón, Alfonso ^a   Fedorenko, Evelina ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Functional localizers; Functional resolution; Individual subject analyses; ROI analyses; Sensitivity; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EFFECT SIZE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866302152     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.065     Document Type: Article

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