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FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI), WHICH ALLOWS RESEARCHERS TO OBSERVE NEURAL ACTIVITY IN THE HUMAN BRAIN NONINVASIVELY, HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE MIND. AN FMRI EXPERIMENT PRODUCES MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF HIGHLY COMPLEX DATA FOR RESEARCHERS TO ANALYZE. THIS BOOK DESCRIBES ALL ASPECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS FOR FMRI EXPERIMENTS, COVERING EVERY STEP_FROM PREPROCESSING TO ADVANCED METHODS FOR ASSESSING FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY_AS WELL AS THE MOST POPULAR MULTIVARIATE APPROACHES. THE GOAL IS NOT TO DESCRIBE WHICH BUTTONS TO PUSH IN THE POPULAR SOFTWARE PACKAGES BUT TO HELP RESEARCHERS UNDERSTAND THE BASIC UNDERLYING LOGIC, THE ASSUMPTIONS, THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, AND THE APPROPRIATENESS OF EACH METHOD.