help > RE: Interpreting fMRI Data: Averaging Across Subjects and Sessions
Jan 25, 2024  01:01 AM | Alfonso Nieto-Castanon - Boston University
RE: Interpreting fMRI Data: Averaging Across Subjects and Sessions

Hi,


How a specific "conditions" (e.g. a "rest" condition) aggregates or not the data across multiple runs is defined in the Setup.conditions tab. For example, you may define in Setup.conditions 12 rest conditions there (e.g. "rest01" to "rest12" conditions), each one associated with a single run/session, or you may define in Setup.conditions a single condition (e.g. a single "rest" condition) spanning all 12 sessions (in this latter case correlations/connectivity measures would be computed from the concatenated data across those 12 runs). In your case, simply check in the Setup.conditions tab how your single condition was defined (perhaps it was defined to span only the first run, or perhaps it was defined to span all runs)


Hope this helps


Alfonso


Originally posted by akr 1205:



I have a question regarding the 'Number of subjects' and 'Number of sessions or runs' in the Basic section of SETUP.


I have recently conducted fMRI imaging 12 times on the same subject. Consequently, I set the Number of subjects to 1 and Number of sessions or runs to 12, and obtained the data for resultsROI_Condition001.mat.


Is this data calculated as the 'average' of the results obtained by setting Number of subjects to 12 and Number of sessions or runs to 1, namely the results from:


resultsROI_Subject001_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject002_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject003_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject004_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject005_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject006_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject007_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject008_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject009_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject010_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject011_Condition001.mat
resultsROI_Subject012_Condition001.mat



I would appreciate it if you could explain how this integrated data (resultsROI_Condition001.mat) is derived.


 


Thank you.



 

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akr 1205 Dec 5, 2023
RE: Interpreting fMRI Data: Averaging Across Subjects and Sessions
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Jan 25, 2024