Causality in Cognitive Neuroscience: Concepts, Challenges, and Distributional Robustness

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century

the challenges of cognitive neuroscience in the 21st century

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DT-MRI Tractography and its Application in Cognitive Neuroscience

Recent advancement of MRI techniques and development of new methods of image analysis have allowed us to study large neural tracts within the human brain. This is based on the principle of diffusion tensor MRI that is similar to that of diffusion-weighted imaging but takes magnitude and direction of the diffusion of water into account. Using this technique we have been able to define large neur...

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Placebo Effects: Concepts, Predictions, and Physiology.

Placebos have been used ubiquitously throughout the history of medicine. Expectations and associative learning processes are important psychological determinants of placebo effects, but their underlying brain mechanisms are only beginning to be understood. We examine the brain systems underlying placebo effects on pain, autonomic, and immune responses. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)...

Granger causality analysis in neuroscience and neuroimaging.

Introduction A key challenge in neuroscience and, in particular, neuroimaging, is to move beyond identification of regional activations toward the characterization of functional circuits underpinning perception, cognition, behavior, and consciousness. Granger causality (G-causality) analysis provides a powerful method for achieving this, by identifying directed functional (“causal”) interaction...