Deficient approaches to human neuroimaging

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Stelzer, Johannes ^a,b   Lohmann, Gabriele ^c,d   Mueller, Karsten ^a   Buschmann, Tilo ^a,e   Turner, Robert ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Cognitive neuroscience; Critical neuroscience; fMRI; Functional localization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 84903739008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00462     Document Type: Article

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