On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 03:47:55 -0700, susannah james <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Hi all > >I am trying to copy and paste my onset times from a .txt file into the onset times box for an fMRI specification Batch. I am using cntrl C and then cntrl V which worked no problem in spm5 but when I try and do it in SPM8 it causes SPM8 to freeze and does not paste the values. Has anyone else had this problem? Would anyone have advice on how else I could do this so that I don't have to manually type in each onset time? > >Many Thanks Susannah I think Volkmar's solution is a good one: "Alternatively, you may want to load the text file into your MATLAB workspace (or create the onsets variable there) and enter the variable name in the input dialog." Cutting and pasting is pretty unreliable if you're doing a lot of it. Giving the onset times names and then typing the names in the input dialog is much more reliable, and less labor-intensive. The only thing required is understanding how to get the onset time data loaded into matlab in such a way that you can do this.