Dear Nicolas,
I suggest you take your contrast at the source level i.e. reconstruct
the two conditions separately (but include them in the same inversion)
and then subject your source images to SPM across subjects.
Best,
Vladimir
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:27 PM Gaelle Nicolas
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> Dear everyone,
>
> I have a question about the EEG contrast over epoch. I have 2 conditions, condition A and condition B.
> For my study I need to make 2 contrasts over epochs, the first one :
> - Condition A > Condition B [1 -1] --> to highlight hypotheses 1
> - Condition B > Condition A [1 -1] --> to highlight hypotheses 2
>
> However these two contrast created the same single differential evoked response (only the signe change, which is normal) but in my case it is a problem because then I compute EEG source reconstruction on this single differential evoked response and I have the same source reconstruction results for the two hypotheses (which is not good for me).
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> To overcome this I could do a contrast like [1 0] but it's not a good solution because later I will compared these results with another source algorithm for which I make contrasts between condition A and condition B like explained before.
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> Is there a way (other than doing a contrast over epochs [1 -1]) to maximize the signal in condition A compared to condition B and conversely ?
> In order to have different single differential evoked response for each hypotheses and then different source reconstruction results.
>
> Thank you in advance for your response,
> Gaëlle Nicolas
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