The consequences of subtracting the mean pattern in fMRI multivariate correlation analyses

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 SEP, 2013, Pages

  Garrido, Lúcia ^a   Vaziri Pashkam, Maryam ^a   Nakayama, Ken ^a   Wilmer, Jeremy ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocktail blank normalization; Correlation analyses; fMRI; Multivariate analyses; Subtraction mean pattern

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84896267494     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00174     Document Type: Article

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