Progress and challenges in probing the human brain

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7573, 2015, Pages 371-379

  Poldrack, Russell A ^a   Farah, Martha J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHICS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENOMICS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROSCIENCES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84944346025     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15692     Document Type: Review

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