Improving effect size estimation and statistical power with multi-echo fMRI and its impact on understanding the neural systems supporting mentalizing
Michael V. Lombardo, Bonnie Auyeung, Rosemary J Holt, Jack Waldman, Amber N. V. Ruigrok, Natasha Mooney, Edward T Bullmore, Simon Baron-Cohen, Prantik Kundu
This paper shows that removing non-BOLD artifacts using ME-ICA improves effect size and statistical power in mentalizing task-fMRI, particularly in cerebellar regions.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2016Neuroscience