Functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation: a technique for studying the properties of neuronal networks

Functional magnetic resonance imaging can be used to study the networks of neurons that underline different behaviors. The blood oxygenation level-dependent signal though, measures the activity averaged across heterogeneous population of neurons with different response characteristics. It is therefore often impossible to infer the properties of the underlying imaged neural populations by simply examining the fMRI signal. Here, we describe the use of an adaptation paradigm to study the properties of neuronal populations beyond the spatial resolution of fMRI.

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