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1. Medicine › Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

   Sources and implications of whole-brain fMRI signals in humans

   Power, Plitt, Laumann and Martin · NeuroImage · 2016

   The authors mapped the global fMRI signal in over 1000 scans and report that it is strongly tied to head motion, hardware artifacts and breathing, which common preparation methods fail to remove.

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   1. UncheckedGlobal fMRI artifacts such as yawns, breathing changes and head motion can look like neural activity and distort signal covariance across the brain.“Such artifacts will mimic dynamic neural activity and will spuriously alter signal covariance throughout the brain.”