Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1104-1112 , October 2010

Multimodal imaging: an evaluation of univariate and multivariate methods for simultaneous EEG/fMRI

  • Federico De Martino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 433884532; fax: +31 433884125.
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  • Giancarlo Valente

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Aline W. de Borst

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Neuroscience, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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  • Fabrizio Esposito

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Neuroscience, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80125 Naples, Italy
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  • Alard Roebroeck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Rainer Goebel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Elia Formisano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Received 11 October 2009 ,Revised 17 December 2009 ,Accepted 21 December 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00318-X

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.026

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