Rainer Boegle1,2, Carolin Cyran3,
Stefan Glasauer1,2, Marianne Dieterich2,3
1Center for Sensorimotor
Research, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; 2Integrated
Center for Research & Treatment of Vertigo, Ludwig-Maximilians University
(IFBLMU), Munich, Germany; 3Department of Neurology,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Nowadays it is assumed that most brain functions involve a network of cortical areas. Thus it should be anticipated that the temporal dynamics of the task-related BOLD responses of the respective areas may vary. Previous studies used spatio-temporal support vector classification to produce functional brain maps revealing responses discriminating between tasks (''discrimination maps''), without having to assume a model for the task related BOLD response. Building on these we present a method for determining the class-wise contributions to these brain maps which can reveal the class(task)-wise similarities in addition to the class(task)-wise differences revealed by the ''discrimination maps''.