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Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2013

Session Number:A3L-D

Session:

Number:122

Complex Network Analysis of Retinotopic Maps in the Human Brain

Tetsuya Shimokawa,  Kenji Leibnitz,  Ferdinand Peper,  

pp.122-125

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.2.122

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The use of complex network analysis to brain imaging has been instrumental to a deeper understanding of the way the brain works at a system level. The more traditional method embodied by Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) is limited to the testing of hypotheses through statistical processes about specific effects in localized Regions of Interest. In order to check the validity of complex network analysis from the viewpoint of SPM, we analyze fMRI data for retinotopic maps, utilizing established knowledge concerning SPM.

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