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Integration of EEG and fMRI

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Neural Correlates of Thinking

Part of the book series: On Thinking ((ONTHINKING,volume 1))

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The integration of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has attracted a lot of interest in the last few years, offering insights into human brain function with both high temporal and high spatial information. Today, methodological problems of simultaneous measurements in terms of hardware and artifact correction are either being resolved or can be dealt with reasonably. While the combination of these two techniques had been of interest primarily in the clinical field of epilepsy, it is now increasingly gaining importance in the field of cognitive neuroscience, for example in offering information about mental chronometry aspects. This chapter describes relevant aspects such as the physiological principles, technical and methodological aspects, artifact correction and some interesting applications.

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  1. Functional Brain Imaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Nussbaumstr. 7, 80336, Munich, Germany

    Christoph Mulert

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Semmelweisstr. 10, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Ulrich Hegerl

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Mulert, C., Hegerl, U. (2009). Integration of EEG and fMRI. In: Kraft, E., Gulyás, B., Pöppel, E. (eds) Neural Correlates of Thinking. On Thinking, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68044-4_7

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