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Hello Freesurfer Users,
I am running selxavg3 on functional MRI data from 2 runs, with a block design (paradigm files attached) and select external regressors originating from fMRIPrep (attached). There are 5 non-fixation conditions in the design.
I am having errors come up during this analysis.
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Without external regressors, there are no runtime errors and one contrast looks okay (corresponding to -a 3 -c 2), however:
- 2 contrasts yield t-stats that are the exact opposites of each other, which was not expected (corresponding to -a 2 -c 4 and -a 3 -c 5)
- Another contrast yields erroneous results, with t-stats on the order of 10^-11 ( corresponding to -a 3 -a 5 -c 2 -c 4).
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With external regressors, only one contrast will run (again, -a 3 -c 2) - the rest give a "design is ill-conditioned error" (log attached).
I have attached the corresponding Xtmp.mat file (zipped).
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I am wondering if there are any strategies someone can recommend for figuring out why these runtime / processing errors occur. Could this be a problem with the task design itself? Any advice is appreciated!
Thank you very much,
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Eli Bulger
Research Assistant
Lab in Multisensory Neuroscience
Carnegie Mellon University