Dear Jacqueline,
SPM.xCon is not a file. It is a MATLAB structure stored in the SPM.mat
file. Just fire up MATLAB, load any SPM.mat file for which you have already
defined contrasts, type "SPM" and this should become clear.
Best wishes,
Klaas
At 07:31 24/09/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>This question was something that I had been wondering about. After I read
your
>reply, I looked in the directories where the analyses are stored and there
is no
>SPM.xCon file. Does SPM2 save it somewhere else? I thought that eveything is
>saved to the working directory.
>
>I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to find this file as it would
make
>analysis simpler.
>
>Thanks very much,
>
>Jacqueline Wood
>
>
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>>>> Klaas Enno Stephan <[log in to unmask]> 09/23/03 09:56pm >>>
>Dear Benni,
>
>> Dear spm-users, I am new to the field of SPM. I have already worked
>>with SPM99 and now I am trying to use SPM2. While SPM99 saved all the
>>contrasts in the file xCon.mat I cannot find it in SPM2. I assume that
>>these contrast are saved in the SPM.mat file.
>
>Yes, they are indeed - in SPM.xCon.
>
>>Before I worked with SPM99 I
>>just had to copy the xCon.mat into every subject-folder but I cannot do so
>>with the SPM.mat. Does this mean that you now have to define the contrast
>>again and again for every subject or is there a way arround this?
>
>You could try batch mode for automatising your analysis via a script that
>can be applied to all subjects. You may want to take a look at
>
>http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/spm2_batch.html
>
>for examples.
>
>Best wishes,
>Klaas
>
>___________________________________________
>Dr Klaas Enno Stephan
>Wellcome Dept. of Imaging Neuroscience
>12 Queen Square, WC1N 3BG, London, UK
>phone: +44-20-78337494
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>web: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~kstephan
>
>
___________________________________________
Dr Klaas Enno Stephan
Wellcome Dept. of Imaging Neuroscience
12 Queen Square, WC1N 3BG, London, UK
phone: +44-20-78337494
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~kstephan
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