no, it's not the talairach space, but rather the MNI305 space.
more info is available from Matt Brett's page at:
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/mnispace.html
cheers,
russ
Yuhong Jiang wrote:
> Dear SPM users,
>
> I need your help urgently, after failing to find an answer to a somewhat
> intriguing problem.
>
> I recently started to do group averaging in SPM and normalized all
> the brains to a template in SPM (default). The statistical results
> look good and have nice time course. However, when I check the
> coordinate of the center of my ROI in the Talairach brain map, I
> found that the particular position is outside the talairach brain,
> at a blank, no tissue position.
>
> Could you tell me why this is happening? Is SPM really using the
> talairarch system to do normalization? If not, how interpretable
> are the coordinates given by the statistical results?
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Yuhong
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