Hello everyone,

I used FsFast to do retinotopy analysis as described at 
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastIndividualRetinotopyAnalysis

I have data for both a clockwise and a counter-clockwise rotating wedge, and 
when I do retinotopy on these separately, it seems to work fine, but when I put 
both runs in one retinotopy analysis (as 001 and 002), they seem to cancel each 
other out and the results looks rubbish; sliceview-sess shows very little 
activation and the surf-sess polar maps don't make sense.

Do you have any idea what might be the problem here? Of course I defined 
opposite directions for both runs in the rtopy.par files.

Some 'problems' with my data which might give you a clue as to what's going on:
- I don't have eccentricity runs, so I copied polar data in a 'fake' 
eccentricity run. Doesn't seem to be the problem, since retinotopy works fine 
for the clockwise and counterclockwise runs separately.
- My wedge starts at the top right of the screen, so I need to state an angle 
offset when watching the results in tksurfer (-0.125) in order for the colour 
coding to make sense (blue = horizontal meridian, right?)
- Although the movement of the wedge fits perfectly with the scans in the 
clockwise run (each wedge lasts one TR and starts exactly at the start of a 
scan), there is a slight offset for the counterclockwise run; wedges still last 
exactly one TR but the first wedge doesn't start exactly at the start of a 
scan. This doesn't seem to cause problems when I analyse the runs separately, 
but could it explain why the activations seem to cancel each other out when I 
combine them in one analysis?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,
Peter Kok
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