title: On neural connectivity estimation problems.
abstract: After briefly recapping and reframing the problem of neural connectivity and its implications for today's brain mapping efforts, we argue that supplementing/replacing traditional conservative correlation based analysis methods requires active user understanding of the aims and limitations of the newly proposed multivariate analysis frameworks before the new methods can gain general acceptance and full profit can be made from the expanded descriptive opportunities they offer.
authors.forename: Luiz A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Baccalá
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sameshima
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*