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Instead of calculating the average you should calculate the min of the 
two conditions (con1,con2), this is the basis of the conjunction analysis.

Michael

Am 10.08.2016 um 04:06 schrieb MCLAREN, Donald:
> Marek,
>
> What the reviewer is asking for is not possible because the conjunction
> does not produce a con_ image. Without the con_ image, you can't do the
> second-level analysis.
>
> I think what the reviewer is asking for is to create a contrast of the
> average of the two conditions and to test if the average of the two
> conditions is different between the groups.
>
> Best Regards,
> Donald McLaren, PhD
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Marek Wypych <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     Dear SPMers,____
>
>     We performed an experiment on readers and pre-readers with speech
>     and print conditions. On second level analysis we computed null
>     conjunction for the 2 contrast in each group (one sample t-test)
>     which produced significant activation in readers while not in
>     pre-readers. However, when the paper was sent to review one of the
>     reviewers wanted us “to compute the conjunction of print and speech
>     on the first level and put these contrasts into a 2-sample t-test on
>     the second-level”.____
>
>     However we came across some difficulties. If we save thresholded SPM
>     map from each subject when performing null conjunction in SPM
>     contrast manager and feed these maps to 2^nd level the model cannot
>     be estimated and there is an error saying “there are no inmask
>     voxels” (even though we used very lenient p<0.05 uncorrected
>     threshold for the 1st level conjunction). Is there a better way of
>     doing multisubject conjunction?____
>
>     Thank you in advance,____
>
>     Marek
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Marek Wypych PhD
>     Laboratory of Brain Imaging (LOBI)
>     Neurobiology Center
>     Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
>     Pasteur 3, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
>     Tel.: +48 22 5892 550
>     http://lobi.nencki.gov.pl/
>
>

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