Test-retest reliability in fMRI: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the variability.

Neuroimage

Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

Published: August 2012

This paper briefly recounts the details of one of the first studies of whole brain, single subject variability in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). In this paper I will not attempt to provide an overview of fMRI reliability, but will instead revisit the choices we made in performing our experiment as we did.

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