Dear Meera,
I may have missed the screenshot. What you describe sounds like what happens with very few degrees of freedom - unlikely to be a problem with fMRI, but how many did you have?
ATB,
Alexander
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On 30 Mar 2011, at 11:25, Meera Paleja wrote:
> It is normalized. I haven't checked it without normalization, but I'm not sure how normalization would contribute to this random scattered pattern of activity...?
>
> The other contrasts show similar activation patterns but they're not identical. I did try putting a +1 in front of my conditions and I got activity everywhere as expected.
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> From: Chris Watson [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:23 PM
> To: Meera Paleja
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> Subject: Re: [SPM] "dalmation" pattern in data
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> Is your data normalized? If so, have you checked to see what it looks
> like without normalization?
> What about other contrasts? Do they look similar? Have you tried, say, a
> contrast of just a +1 over each key press? Then you should at least see
> something in motor cortex.
>
> Meera Paleja wrote:
>> Attached is a figure for one subject, but this is a fairly consistent pattern across all my subjects for all contrasts.
>>
>> This was a high-resolution fMRI experiment that used a medial temporal lobe shim. The task involved seeing an image of an object on the floor of a computerized room. This was followed by the recognition phase, where subjects saw an image with two objects, one in the same location as the original and another in a different location and were asked to indicate which is in the same location using a key press.
>>
>> The image file attached here is a contrast comparing the recognition phase with a baseline letter task, where participants are asked to indicate whether a displayed letter is a vowel or consonant using a key press.
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>> Meera
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>> From: Chris Watson [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 5:03 PM
>> To: Meera Paleja
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>> Subject: Re: [SPM] "dalmation" pattern in data
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>> Could you attach a screenshot? And explain the experiment?
>>
>> Meera Paleja wrote:
>>
>>> Hi SPM-ers,
>>>
>>> I am seeing odd activation patterns in my data, specifically "dalmation-like" activation, where one or two voxel "clusters" are activated throughout the brain, with very few clusters larger than that. Does anyone know what might account for this? I haven't smoothed the data as I am interested in very small regions (hippocampal subregions)- could the lack of smoothing be a reason for these strange patterns?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Meera
>>>
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>>> Meera Paleja, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.A.
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