Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1087-1094 , October 2010

Coupling of neural activity and fMRI-BOLD in the motion area MT

  • Michael T. Lippert

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Thomas Steudel

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
    • ,
  • Frank Ohl

      Affiliations

    • Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestraße 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Nikos K. Logothetis

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
    • Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, M13 9PT Manchester, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Christoph Kayser

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

Received 14 October 2009 ,Revised 16 December 2009 ,Accepted 21 December 2009.

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☆ This study was supported by the Max Planck Society.

PII: S0730-725X(09)00320-8

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.028

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 8 , Pages 1087-1094 , October 2010

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