Granger causality is designed to measure effect, not mechanism

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Adam B Barrett et al. Front Neuroinform. 2013.

. 2013 Apr 25:7:6.

doi: 10.3389/fninf.2013.00006. eCollection 2013.

¹ Department of Informatics, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex Brighton, UK.

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Causality analysis of neural connectivity: critical examination of existing methods and advances of new methods.
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