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I thought the residuals should only change the smoothness estimates, thus
shouldn't have on the actual values in the statistics or contrast images.

G2 < G3 ( 1 -1 0) is the same as G2 > G3  (1 -1 0).

Are you using the same variance settings in both models?

Best Regards,
Donald McLaren, PhD


On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:00 AM, MRI More <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> In principle you should obtain identical results, independent of the order
> of the groups (or more generally, the order of the files loaded). However,
> with the default settings SPM calculates residual images for the first 64
> images only. Accordingly, in case your number of subjects is larger (or the
> number of files loaded) you will observe some differences. I'm not sure
> whether this is really the reason for your observation, but you can try
> yourself by setting defaults.stats.maxres in spm_defaults.m to Inf.
>
> Best regards
>
> Helmut
>