Validating fMRI methods: Glossary

Key Points

Working with fMRI data using R
  • fMRI data is a time series of 3D images of the brain.

  • Visualising and manipulating fMRI nifti images can be done with neurobase.

Computing functional connectivity.
  • Using an atlas, we can extract time series data from a resting state fMRI.

  • Using those time series, we can estimate the functional connectivity (correlation) between parts of the brain.

Using real data to validate task fMRI.
  • It can be very insightful to use resting data to validate task methods.

Simulating connectivity.
  • fMRI data is a time series of 3D images of the brain.

  • Visualising and manipulating fMRI nifti images can be done with neurobase.

Glossary