Equation 6 · What a Neural Recording Actually Records
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Writing it this way exposes what is being assumed rather than measured: that h is known, that it is the same across regions, subjects and states, and that the mapping from n to y is linear. Each of those is an approximation with documented exceptions.
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- [10] Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal ↗
- [11] What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI ↗
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