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Decoding fMRI Signatures of Real-world Autobiographical Memory Retrieval

Posted on January 20, 2016     Leave a Comment

Jesse Rissman, Tiffany E. Chow, Nicco Reggente, and Anthony D. Wagner Abstract: Extant neuroimaging data implicate frontoparietal and medial-temporal lobe regions in episodic retrieval, and the specific pattern of activity within and across these regions is diagnostic of an individual’s subjective mnemonic experience. For example, in laboratory-based paradigms, memories for recently encoded faces can be […]

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MVPA (Multi Variate/Voxel Pattern Analysis): The Basics

Posted on August 23, 2012     Leave a Comment

Often times I feel restrained by the unfortunate, inherent shortcomings of medical and functional imaging data. The entire process is subject to a vast array of variability, assumptions, and “warpings” in many senses of the word. These, however minute the calculations and interpolations may be, carry an overarching sentiment of being haphazard. However, differences between […]

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