Statistical analysis of fMRI time-series: A critical review of the GLM approach

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2011, Pages

  Monti, Martin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Blood oxygenation level dependent; Fixed effects; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; General linear model; Mixed effects; Multicollinearity; Ordinary least squares

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL LINEAR MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 84933672830     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00028     Document Type: Article

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