help > RE: Correction for global signal
Sep 9, 2016  09:09 AM | Sascha Froelich
RE: Correction for global signal
Dear Alfonso,

when you say adding a new ROi that encompasses the whole brain would be a way to approximate global signal regression, would you remove the WM and CSF ROIs from the confounds list or not? If not, wouldn't that be redundant somehow?

Cheers,
Sascha

Originally posted by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon:
Dear Natalia,

By default the conn toolbox uses CompCor, instead of global signal regression, to address potential subject-movement and physiological confounding effects without the risk of artificially introducing anticorrelations into your functional connectivity estimates, so generally I would not recommend using global signal regression instead. See this thread (https://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?th...), or this reference (Chai X.J., Nieto-Castanon A., Ongur D., Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (2012) Anticorrelations in resting state networks without global signal regression. NeuroImage 59(2):1420-1428) for more details about this issue.

That said, if you still want to regress out the global signal you may do so (approximately) by entering the 'grey-matter' ROI into the 'confounds' list in the 'Preprocessing' tab (and probably removing the White-matter and CSF ROIs if you do not want to use the CompCor strategy), or (perhaps more precisely) by adding a new ROI in the 'Setup->ROIs' tab that encompass the entire brain (e.g. brainmask.nii if you are working on normalized volumes) and entering this ROI instead into the 'confounds' list in the 'Preprocessing' tab. 

Hope this helps
Alfonso
Originally posted by Natalia Yakunina:
Dear all,

Is there a way to regress against the global signal in CONN?

Thank you!

Best,
Natalia

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Natalia Yakunina Jul 15, 2013
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Jul 18, 2013
RE: Correction for global signal
Sascha Froelich Sep 9, 2016
Nobody Nov 20, 2020
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Sep 9, 2016
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