Tom Zeffiro

Mental chronometry is one of the earliest, and most frequently employed, experimental methods used to estimate the temporal structure of human cognitive processing. While fMRI is widely used to determine the spatial localization of specific processes, its use in assessing their relatiive timing has been greatly restricted by the limited sampling rates possible with multislice echoplanar imaging. Inverse magnetic resonance imaging provides a novel means to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in fMRI sampling rates.  

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References 

MENTAL CHRONOMETRY - BEHAVIOR

Donders FC
Over de snelheid van psychische processen. Onderzoekingen gedaan in het Physiologisch Laboratorium der Utrechtsche Hoogeschool, 1868-1869, Tweeds reeks, II, 92--l20. Transl. by W. G. Koster, as:
Donders FC
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The discovery of processing stages: extensions of Donder’s method.
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MENTAL CHRONOMETRY - ECHOPLANAR IMAGING

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Spatial and temporal limits in cognitive neuroimaging with fMRI.
Trends Cogn Sci. 1999 Jun;3(6):207-216.

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Mental chronometry using latency-resolved functional MRI.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Sep 1;95(18):10902-7.

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INVERSE IMAGING

Lin FH, Wald LL, Ahlfors SP, Hämäläinen MS, Kwong KK, Belliveau JW.
Dynamic magnetic resonance inverse imaging of human brain function.
Magn Reson Med. 2006 Oct;56(4):787-802.

Lin FH, Witzel T, Mandeville JB, Polimeni JR, Zeffiro TA, Greve DN, Wiggins G,
Wald LL, Belliveau JW.
Event-related single-shot volumetric functional magnetic resonance inverse
imaging of visual processing.
Neuroimage. 2008 Aug 1;42(1):230-47. Epub 2008 Apr 23.

Lin FH, Witzel T, Zeffiro TA, Belliveau JW.
Linear constraint minimum variance beamformer functional magnetic resonance
inverse imaging.
Neuroimage. 2008 Nov 1;43(2):297-311. Epub 2008 Jul 11.