Functional connection : This term has multiple meanings; originally it referred to the physiology of a connection (structural connection), or the observation that a connection actually works. More recently it is used in functional imaging research to indicate that changes in nervous system (Monro, 1783) activity patterns are correlated in time, without direct evidence for structural connections; see Horwitz (2003).

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