Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 1015-1025 , September 2008

On the use of information theory for the analysis of the relationship between neural and imaging signals

  • Stefano Panzeri

      Affiliations

    • Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy
    • Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, The Mill, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Stefano Panzeri is to be contacted at Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy. Nikos K. Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, Tübingen, Germany.
    • ,
  • Cesare Magri

      Affiliations

    • Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy
    • Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, I-20135 Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Nikos K. Logothetis

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
    • Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Stefano Panzeri is to be contacted at Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy. Nikos K. Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, Tübingen, Germany.

Received 17 January 2008 ,Accepted 22 February 2008.

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PII: S0730-725X(08)00103-3

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.02.019

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 1015-1025 , September 2008

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