Hi- in Conn seed-to-voxel analysis, when I press 'export mask' for a certain threshold, one of the files created is *PEAKS.mat. I was wondering more specifically what these peaks represent?

E.g., with a seed in 'vestibular cortex,' I get 529 peaks, 239 of which remain if I keep only those where 'peaks_suprathreshold' = 1. 

Do these peaks represent local maxima? If so, is there any criteria regarding a min distance between peaks or is there a min cluster size for defining a cluster in which a peak is calculated? 

I am confused as to how to interpret, because (as far as I can find), the *PEAKS.mat data do not map onto anything else I can see in the Results Explorer. 

Ultimately, because my seed-to-voxel analysis has returned few very large clusters, I would like to use coordinates of local maxima to make ROIs for future ROI-to-ROI analyses. 

Any help is greatly appreciated. 

Best wishes, 
Kathleen