<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What
I am trying to do is to fit auditory data by placing anatomically
defined sources in left and right auditory cortex. The issue I'm having
is that the time courses aren't matching up with time courses generated
using a similar approach in BESA. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are you doing the equivalent computation in BESA, i.e. a minimum norm estimate with dSPM noise normalization, regularization parameter = 1. / 9., and so forth?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>More concerning, the time courses don't
match what I get if I do a full cortical sheet source localization and
extract the time courses from a functional label.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If I understand your source space correctly -- that it is just a handful of dipoles (or one dipole) in left and right auditory cortices, or a similar small subset -- this is not too surprising to me (though I have never tried it). Minimum norm will try to account for all observed sensor data using activations in exactly the set of source points provided. So if you only provide auditory cortex sources in the source space, MNE will try to explain all sensor activity using only these sources. This means that if there is any activation outside of auditory cortex -- or even sensor or environmental noise -- it will show up in "auditory cortex" anyway (as it is the <i>only</i> place it can show up). If you have a full cortical source space on the other hand, activity from other areas can be accounted for by those other source points, and sensor/environmental noise sources can be distributed across other sources.</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking about the limiting case of only a few locations, activations in tiny source space might approach something like the time course of the global field power (although dSPM normalization might change this a bit).</div><div><br></div><div>There might be other things going on, too -- I'm not sure how nicely the minimum norm and dSPM code behave if there are <i>fewer</i> source points than sensors, for example, though I'd expect it to be okay -- but this is at least what first came to mind.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>