>Thus, if the main effect across the entire task was not being driven by
>one half over the other, the [1 1] map masked with [1 0] should
>essentially be the same as the [1 1] map masked with [0 1], correct?
Yep, except you can't know this without doing the masking.
>And
>if there are differences, then it suggests that the global main effect
>across the task is not a great indicator of what regions are activated
>as a function of time. In essence then, [1 1] represents a mean of [1 0]
>and [0 1] activation, not a simple addition, correct?
That's right. Linear contrasts are means -- not additions.
>So masking [1 -1] with [1 1] is wrong for my purposes because only
>voxels commonly active (on average) across both halves will be used in
>the mask (assuming my understanding of [1 1] as mean and not summed
>activation is correct). If instead, I mask [1 -1] with both [1 0] and [0
>1] simultaneously, then it will mask the [1 -1] contrast with I>N voxels
>that appear in both halves, correct? And this yields a map of I>N
>voxels that were more active in the first half compared to second?
That's right. This will yield a map of I(first) > I(last) only in voxels
where there is an I>N effect in the first and last half of the experiment.
Good luck.
Joe
Joseph Devlin, Ph. D.
FMRIB, Dept. of Clinical Neurology
University of Oxford
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