Six problems for causal inference from fMRI

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 1545 - 1558
• Main Authors: Ramsey, J.D., Hanson, S.J., Hanson, C., Halchenko, Y.O., Poldrack, R.A., Glymour, C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.01.2010; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Algorithms; Automation; Brain - physiology; Computer Simulation; Databases as Topic; Economic models; Feedback, Physiological; Graphs; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Models, Neurological; Nonlinear Dynamics; Oxygen - blood; Probability distribution; Random variables; Time Factors; Time series

Neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI) data are increasingly used to attempt to identify not only brain regions of interest (ROIs) that are especially active during perception, cognition, and action, but also the qualitative causal relations among activity in these regions (known as effective connectivity; Fristo...