What do differences between multi-voxel and univariate analysis mean? How subject-, voxel-, and trial-level variance impact fMRI analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 271-283

  Davis, Tyler ^a   LaRocque, Karen F ^b   Mumford, Jeanette A ^c   Norman, Kenneth A ^d   Wagner, Anthony D ^b   Poldrack, Russell A ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionality; Distributed representations; FMRI analysis; MVPA; Voxel level variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CALCULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901370314     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.037     Document Type: Article

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