Upsampling to 400-ms Resolution for Assessing Effective Connectivity in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data with Granger Causality

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-71

  Mcfarlin, Daniel R ^a,b   Kerr, Deborah L ^a,c   Nitschke, Jack B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; context dependent analysis; effective connectivity; fMRI; Granger causality; snake phobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977787881     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0093     Document Type: Article

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