Dear SPM'ers,
Hopefully one of you can help me out with my question regarding two-state DCM. In Marreiros paper about two-state DCM they speak of multiple intrinsic (i.e. within one node) connections: E->E (excitatory to excitatory), E->I (excitatory to inhibitory), I->E (inhibitory to excitatory) and I->I (inhibitory to inhibitory) in the Jacobian matrix. However, if you estimate a DCM, the saved DCM.mat will only contain one (log-scaled) value per self connection in the DCM.A, DCM.B and DCM.D expected posterior (Ep.A, Ep.B and Ep.D). My question: which of the above mentioned intrincic connections do these expected posteriors reflect? And let's say there would be a positive Ep.B parameter for that self-connection, would this mean an increase of the excitatory or inhibitory coupling of that self-connection?
Thanks for your help!
With very best wishes,
Michiel Dirkx
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