Attention-Dependent Modulation of Cortical Taste Circuits Revealed by Granger Causality with Signal-Dependent Noise

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Luo, Qiang ^a,b   Ge, Tian ^a,c   Grabenhorst, Fabian ^d   Feng, Jianfeng ^a,c   Rolls, Edmund T ^c,e  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; BLOOD-OXYGEN-LEVEL DEPENDENTS; CAUSAL MODELING; CORTEXES; CORTICAL AREAS; GRANGER CAUSALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL DEPENDENT NOISE; TIMES SERIES; TOP DOWN EFFECTS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONNECTOME; COVARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODULATION; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASTE;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887308350     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003265     Document Type: Article

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