articleSocial Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceMay 7, 2012HYBRID OA

Tools of the trade: psychophysiological interactions and functional connectivity

Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging · National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · +5 more institutions

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Abstract

Psychophysiological interactions (PPIs) analysis is a method for investigating task-specific changes in the relationship between activity in different brain areas, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Specifically, PPI analyses identify voxels in which activity is more related to activity in a seed region of interest (seed ROI) in a given psychological context, such as during attention or in the presence of emotive stimuli. In this tutorial, we aim to give a simple conceptual explanation of how PPI analysis works, in order to assist readers in planning and interpreting their own PPI experiments.

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  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • Psychology
  • Emotive
  • Context (archaeology)
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Functional connectivity
  • Task (project management)
  • Voxel
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