ERIC Number: EJ887373
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Publication Date: 2010-Jun
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Optimization of Blocked Designs in fMRI Studies
Maus, Barbel; van Breukelen, Gerard J. P.; Goebel, Rainer; Berger, Martijn P. F.
Psychometrika, v75 n2 p373-390 Jun 2010
Blocked designs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are useful to localize functional brain areas. A blocked design consists of different blocks of trials of the same stimulus type and is characterized by three factors: the length of blocks, i.e., number of trials per blocks, the ordering of task and rest blocks, and the time between trials within one block. Optimal design theory was applied to find the optimal combination of these three design factors. Furthermore, different error structures were used within a general linear model for the analysis of fMRI data, and the maximin criterion was applied to find designs which are robust against misspecification of model parameters. (Contains 1 table and 4 figures.)
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Diagnostic Tests, Visual Aids, Brain, Stimuli, Mathematical Models
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