Abstract: There has been an increasing interest in examining organisational principles of the cerebral cortex (and subcortical regions) using different MRI features such as structural or functional connectivity. Despite the widespread interest, however, an introductory and intuitive review on the underlying technique for the neuroimaging community is lacking in the literature.Articles that investigate “neural gradients” have increased in popularity. Thus, we believe that it is opportune to discuss what is generally meant by “gradient analysis”. W...
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