LLN, le 15/02/05
Dear Max, Tom and the others,
Another point that seems critical to me and that I don't find that
clear in many papers is how exactly the contrasts are computed (which
condition is subtracted from what, is the contrast masked and if yes
by what, etc.). When doing this, I would suggest to use names that
explicitely refer to the CONDITIONS/BLOCKS names, not to the names of
some underlying variables or psychological concepts (ok, in a perfect
and simple world, all should be equivalent, but we don't live in a
perfect and simple world, do we?).
Two other minor suggestions:
- to clearly state the threshold used to display results in figures
(and make it really explicit when it's different from the one used in
the analysis!);
- to report the order in which the various pre-processing steps have
been performed.
Yours,
Mauro.
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