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Hi,

On 14 Feb 2008, at 15:05, Vishwadeep Ahluwalia wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> Thanks for the clarification. About the TICA maps, I expect certain  
> primary
> sensory areas to have a different timecourse(less width of response)  
> than
> the secondary areas. What i got is primary and secondary areas  
> activated in
> the same spatial map for a timecourse that looked more like a  
> secondary area
> timecourse. This makes sense, since you said its averaged over all  
> active
> voxels in a spatial map. However, what do you suggest i should do,  
> inorder to
> maybe segregate the spatial map of primary and secondary areas(eg:  
> will
> increasing dimensionality help?)

Yes, it is worth trying inceasing the dimensionality to see if that  
helps split the areas.

> or is it possible to extract timecourses of
> individual areas within this particular spatial map(i.e without  
> averaging
> the time courses or in other words can i look at average time course  
> in a
> particular area using an ROI,like in fslmeants or featquery)

Yes, for such a hypothesis-driven analysis you should run FEAT and  
then Featquery to ask about the differentiation, (as well as seeing  
what MELODIC gives).

Cheers.


>
> Thanks
> -vish
>


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