Functional Clustering: Identifying Strongly Interactive Brain Regions in Neuroimaging Data

@article{Tononi1998FunctionalCI,
  title={Functional Clustering: Identifying Strongly Interactive Brain Regions in Neuroimaging Data},
  author={Giulio Tononi and Anthony Randal Mcintosh and D. P. Russell and Gerald M. Edelman},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={1998},
  volume={7},
  pages={133-149}
}
Brain imaging data are generally used to determine which brain regions are most active in an experimental paradigm or in a group of subjects. Theoretical considerations suggest that it would also be of interest to know which set of brain regions are most interactive in a given task or group of subjects. A subset of regions that are much more strongly interactive among themselves than with the rest of the brain is called here a functional cluster. Functional clustering can be assessed by… 
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