The document discusses several methods for analyzing brain data including:
1. PageRanking, which involves transforming fMRI data into a graph and investigating PageRank values to identify functional brain regions.
2. Granger causality analysis, which uses a vector autoregressive model on fMRI time series data to identify directional influences between brain areas.
3. Clustering algorithms like k-means, normalized cut, and heat kernel PageRank that are being explored to automatically identify the locations of functional brain regions from fMRI data with the goal of addressing inconsistencies between previous studies.