Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , 30 October 2009

Test–retest reliability of event-related functional MRI in a probabilistic reversal learning task

  • Tobias Freyer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hauptstraße 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 761 270 5040; fax: +49 761 270.
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  • Gabriele Valerius

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute for Mental Health, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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  • Anne-Katrin Kuelz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hauptstraße 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Oliver Speck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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  • Volkmar Glauche

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hugstetter Str. 55, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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  • Michael Hull

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hauptstraße 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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  • Ulrich Voderholzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hauptstraße 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Received 11 September 2007 ,Revised 28 November 2008 ,Accepted 8 March 2009.

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☆ Location of work: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Physics, University Hospital, Hugstetter Str. 55, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany.

PII: S0925-4927(09)00065-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.03.003

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , 30 October 2009

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