Global and System-Specific Resting-State fMRI Fluctuations Are Uncorrelated: Principal Component Analysis Reveals Anti-Correlated Networks

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 496-510

  Carbonell, Felix ^a,b   Bellec, Pierre ^c   Shmuel, Amir ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

default mode network; dorsal attention network; functional connectivity; global average signal; principal component analysis; resting state; task positive network

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018883718     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2011.0065     Document Type: Article

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