do you have matlab installed? What is the result of the "getmatlab" command?

Jodie Davies-Thompson wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  I tried running the contrast you suggested and 
> still get the same error as shown below. I'm guessing it's a problem 
> with my command? What have I done wrong?
>
> Ultimately, I would like to show the response to each wedge as 
> compared to the others. However, I'm hoping to find a way to show all 
> 4 contrasts on the inflated brain together - hence the reason I tried 
> going down the retinotopy route after I couldn't get this working....
>
> Jodie
> ---------------------------------------
> [Main@Brain1] $ mkcontrast-sess -contrast upperright -analysis 
> er.self.lh -ncond 4 -a 1 -c 0
> INFO: Found 4 Non-Null Conditions
> INFO: Found 1 Delays
> Condition Weights: 1.00000000000000000000 0 0 0
> mkcontrast -anadir er.self.lh -wcond 1.00000000000000000000 0 0 0 
> -sumconds -o er.self.lh/upperright.mat -wdelay 1 -no-octave
>   $Id: mkcontrast,v 1.10 2010/07/16 16:20:10 greve Exp $
> cmtxfile  er.self.lh/upperright.mat
> nconds    4,  wcond  1.00000000000000000000 0 0 0
> ndelays   1, wdelay 1
> ndelays   1, wpsa  
> sumconds  1
> sumdelays 0
> nircorr   0
> TER       0.050000
> rdelta   
> rtau     
> ERROR running mkcontrast
> mkcontrast -anadir er.self.lh -wcond 1.00000000000000000000 0 0 0 
> -sumconds -o er.self.lh/upperright.mat -wdelay 1 -no-octave
> ---------------------------------------
>
> On 10/13/2011 8:40 AM, Douglas N Greve wrote:
>> Hi Jodie, I'm still not sure what you are trying to show. If you want to 
>> show each wedge separately, then you will need four contrasts of the 
>> form "-a 1 -c 0", "-a 2 -c 0", etc. If you want to show places where a 
>> voxel responds to *any* of the four, you can use "-a 1 -a 2 -a 3 -a 4 
>> -nosumconds". This will create an F-test (basically an OR of all the 
>> conditions). Alternatively, you can run it with "-a 1 -a 2 -a 3 -a 4". 
>> This will just add all of them together.
>>
>> doug
>>
>>
>> Jodie Davies-Thompson wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear FreeSurfers,
>>>
>>> I am new to Freesurfer and attempting to run a very basic analysis, 
>>> but am finally stuck after trying 3 alternative ways of displaying the 
>>> data. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> I have 4 wedges/quadrants (no expanding rings), and want to show areas 
>>> responding to each of the 4 *on an inflated brain*. tksurfer doesn't 
>>> allow multiple zstats to be presented simultaneously so overlaying the 
>>> zstats from FSL isn't an option. My next plan was to use a basic 
>>> block-related design and run contrasts, but mkcontrast-sess produced 
>>> an error which I have copied below. (Note: I also tried -ncond 4 -a 4 
>>> -c 1 -c 2 -c 3)
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> [Main@Brain1]$ mkcontrast-sess -contrast upperright -analysis 
>>> er.self.lh -ncond 4 -wcond -1 -1 -1 3                                 
>>> INFO: Found 4 Non-Null Conditions
>>> INFO: Found 1 Delays
>>> Runtime error (func=(main), adr=3): Divide by zero
>>> Runtime error (func=(main), adr=4): Divide by zero
>>> Condition Weights: -1 -1 -1 3
>>> mkcontrast -anadir er.self.lh -wcond -1 -1 -1 3 -sumconds -o 
>>> er.self.lh/upperright.mat -wdelay 1 -nocnorm -setwcond -no-octave
>>>   $Id: mkcontrast,v 1.10 2010/07/16 16:20:10 greve Exp $
>>> cmtxfile  er.self.lh/upperright.mat
>>> nconds    4,  wcond  -1 -1 -1 3
>>> ndelays   1, wdelay 1
>>> ndelays   1, wpsa  
>>> sumconds  1
>>> sumdelays 0
>>> nircorr   0
>>> TER       0.050000
>>> rdelta   
>>> rtau     
>>> ERROR running mkcontrast
>>> mkcontrast -anadir er.self.lh -wcond -1 -1 -1 3 -sumconds -o 
>>> er.self.lh/upperright.mat -wdelay 1 -nocnorm -setwcond -no-octave
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> RETINOTOPY ERROR:
>>> After the above didn't work, I then started a retinotopic analysis 
>>> using the steps on the wiki 
>>> (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastIndividualRetinotopyAnalysis),
>>>  
>>> but as I only have wedges and no rings, in my case I only have 1 run 
>>> and one rtopy.par file - both under bold/001. However, when I try to 
>>> view the output using the commard 'tksurfer-sess -a rtopy.self.lh -s 
>>> L_quads' I get the below error.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [Main@Brain1]$ tksurfer-sess -a rtopy.self.lh -s L_V123quads            
>>> Surface self lh
>>> Map Surface self lh
>>> $Id: tksurfer-sess,v 1.16.2.1 2011/04/05 22:25:15 greve Exp $
>>> Linux Brain1 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 
>>> 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> Wed Oct 12 18:02:29 PDT 2011
>>> /usr/local/freesurfer/bin/tksurfer
>>>
>>> list eccen polar
>>> ERROR: cannot find 
>>> /usr/local/freesurfer/sessions/Subj001/L_V123quads/bold/rtopy.self.lh/eccen
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> I saw the suggestions on a previous thread about fooling the analysis 
>>> by copying the polar data into the eccen directory, but I'm still 
>>> confused - should be creating identical directories (ie. 002, 003, 
>>> 004) containing the identical dataset but different rtopy.par files? 
>>> All I have under rtopy.self.lh is an 'analysis.info' file.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? At the moment I have no way of displaying my data, and I'm 
>>> going round in circles, so any suggestions would be great!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Jodie
>>>
>>>  -- 
>>> Jodie Davies-Thompson, Postdoctoral Fellow
>>> Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
>>> UBC/VGH Eye Care Centre
>>> 2550 Willow Street
>>> Vancouver, BC
>>> Canada
>>> V5Z 3N9
>>> Tel: 604-875-411 ext 69003 
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>
> -- 
> Jodie Davies-Thompson, Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
> UBC/VGH Eye Care Centre
> 2550 Willow Street
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada
> V5Z 3N9
> Tel: 604-875-411 ext 69003

-- 
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