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Hi Joelle,
Neither image is "thresholded." If you load and view either the con or spmT
.nii files, you will see that there is a value at each voxel.
The difference between the images is that the con image gives you the
p-value at each voxel, while the spmT image gives you the t-statistic at
each voxel.  The functionality is the same as in regular null hypothesis
significance testing.  The t-statistic accounts for the difference in
observed Beta relative to standard error of the Betas.  The p-value tells
you the statistical significance at each voxel; therefore, it accounts for
the t-statistic at each voxel as well as the degrees of freedom of the data.
P.S. when you do a second-level analysis, you should always use the con
files, not the spmT's.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Joelle Zimmermann <
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> Hi SPMers,
>
> Am I correct that the spmT_0001.nii image is the same glass brain image
> that I would see when I pick a particular contrast to visualize under
> results and get the glass brain with the results table under it. Ie - the
> regions that significantly stand out (based on the t-test) for that
> particular contrast?
>
> Alternatively, what is actually the con_0001.nii image? Is this the same
> image just not thresholded for significance?
>
> Thanks,
> Joelle
>