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Dear SPM list,

I'm planning on running an experiment with conditions A and B in two
different sessions pre and post manipulation.

My task would proceed as follow, Participants will run one session (pre
manipulation) with 50% A trials and 50% B trials. While in the scanner we
will perform a manipulation on them (approx 5 min). And inmediately we will
run a second session similar to the first one.

My hypothesis is that Pre A = Pre B, and Post A != Post B, which should
translate in a significant interaction.

And that Post A > Pre A.

Are this statiscally valid contrasts, assuming that Post A and Pre A occur
in different sessions? I've been advised to not compare trials across
sessions though in this case there is no other way possible.

Cheers and thanks in advance,

Luis.