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Brain imaging: fMRI 2.0

Functional magnetic resonance imaging is growing from showy adolescence into a workhorse of brain imaging.

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Smith, K. Brain imaging: fMRI 2.0. Nature 484, 24–26 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484024a

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