New Insights into Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

Dear Colleagues,

Since the breakthrough of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the late 1980s, it has been applied in countless fields for scientific studies, including (but not limited to) brain encoding and decoding. In brain encoding studies, fMRI has been implemented for brain activation detection, connectivity, and adaptation studies. These methods have been applied in clinical, psychological, and cognitive studies and have led to revolutionary findings that help to explain the normal brain and the brain that is affected by various diseases. However, brain decoding or mind-reading techniques make up a relatively new research area, and algorithms have been designed to read people's thoughts from the brain. Based on fMRI and statistical methods, it is possible to read the mind if there are enough training datasets. This Special Issue aims to present the current findings dedicated to fMRI methods and their application to a wide range of scientific research topics in both clinical and psychological studies. It can be a new method for fMRI studies, and it can also be a new application of fMRI in basic scientific research fields. Our goal is for these works to contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas resulting in discoveries in multidisciplinary subjects using fMRI.

Dr. Xingfeng Li
Guest Editor

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• fMRI
• statistical analysis
• image analysis
• brain
• radiology
• MRI
• cognitive
• neuroscience