Hi SPMers,I'm working with the gPPI toolbox to contrast the contribution of my seed region in two groups defined by their psychological conditions: in other words, I want to analyze the same regressors in each subject, but contrast them at the second level
My first question is why I'm getting an error message while doing this. The error occurs in the second spm_spm step, when saving planeEstimation fails (at plane 14/68, block 1/1). Then it says "PPI contrasts were not estimated for some reason." Has anyone else encountered this, or does anyone know what the problem might be?
My second question, which might help answer the first one, is about my parameter structure. In order to identify the regressors I'm interested in, I'm using the 'cond' method and specifying the tasks with their names (which are 'fix,' 'punishment,' and 'reward'). Then to create t-contasts to simply select the regressors of interest (which I in turn plan to contrast at the second level), I have:P.Estimate=1;
P.Tasks={'1' 'fix' 'punishment' 'reward'};
P.CompContrasts=1;
P.Contrasts(1).left={'fix' 'punishment' 'reward'};
P.Contrasts(1). right={'none'};
P.Contrasts(1).STAT='T';
P.Contrasts(1).MinEvents=5;
P.Contrasts(1).name='Music';
To my understanding, this should do what I described above: select the regressors I'm interested in and create a contrast that includes all of them for me to use at the second level. Am I wrong, and/or is this causing the problem with estimating the PPI contrasts?
Thank you for your help!-Ben--Ben GoldDoctoral CandidateIntegrated Program in NeuroscienceMontreal Neurological InstituteMcGill University, Canada