Investigating Effective Brain Connectivity from fMRI Data: Past Findings and Current Issues with Reference to Granger Causality Analysis

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 235-245

  Deshpande, Gopikrishna ^a,b   Hu, Xiaoping ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blind hemodynamic deconvolution; brain networks; effective connectivity; functional connectivity; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882248848     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0091     Document Type: Review

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