Thanks for your help Doug. That cleared things up.

One more question, I want to average over 2 of these scan sessions for the
same subject. Is there a command or option that will let me do this and
output the fsig.nii file for the average activity?

Cesar


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Douglas N Greve
<gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>wrote:

>
> sorry, there should be an fsig.nii.gz which is the F test of the real and
> imaginary. That sounds like what you are asking for
>
>
> On 12/04/2013 12:19 PM, Cesar Echavarria wrote:
>
>> To clarify, I am piggy-backing on the retinotopic analysis to map out
>> orientation preference with the travelling-wave method. We presented
>> subjects with a rotating grating and right now I am simply interested in
>> finding the voxels that have significant activity in response to any
>> orientation. Now, when I load the sig.nii file under the 'polar' folder
>> with MATLAB I see that each voxel has 2 values. I understand that these are
>> the p-values for the real and imaginary components of the signal. Is there
>> a way to put these 2 values together for my purposes? Is there a file
>> somewhere in the pipeline that will give me the values I am looking for?
>>
>> Thanks you for your help
>>
>> Cesar
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Douglas N Greve <
>> gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     They are compared against 0 (ie, no change from baseline). The
>>     negatives just mean that the real component was negative
>>     doug
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 12/03/2013 06:21 PM, Cesar Echavarria wrote:
>>
>>
>>         So I want to figure out which voxels were modulated
>>         significantly by the orientation of our stimuli. Is this the
>>         right file to look at? If so what are the real and imaginary
>>         components compared against? I want to know to make sense of
>>         the negative values.
>>
>>         On Dec 3, 2013 5:52 PM, "Douglas N Greve"
>>         <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>>         <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>>
>>         <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>> wrote:
>>
>>               It is the -log10(pvalue) where pvalue is the p-value
>>         from the F-test
>>             of the real and imaginary components
>>             doug
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>             On 12/03/2013 05:41 PM, Cesar Echavarria wrote:
>>             > Hi freesurfers,
>>             >
>>             > I conducted a retinotopic analysis for one of my
>>         subjects. I was
>>             > wondering if any of you knew what is represented by the
>>         values
>>             in the
>>             > sig.nii file under the 'polar' directory that the
>>         process puts out.
>>             >
>>             > I appreciate your help!
>>             >
>>             > Cesar
>>             >
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