Thank you very much!

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Douglas Greve <dgr...@mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> you can view it with
> tksurferfv fsaverage lh inflated -aparc -overlay conjunction.nii.gz -fminmax 
> 2 5
> tksurferfv is a front-end for freeview. You can change the thresholds in 
> freeview
> 
> On 3/22/18 12:27 PM, nm644 wrote:
>> Thank you for the quick reply.
>> 
>> As you may be able to tell I'm a bit new at this so am still unsure about 
>> some things but yes a conjunction analysis is exactly what I want to do. 
>> Just a little more background, all the tasks are exactly the same in that 
>> they all have a null condition (set to 0 in all the paradigm files) with the 
>> same duration and the ON of all tasks also has the same duration across all 
>> tasks. I've also set the ON blocks in the 3 different paradigm files to be 
>> 1,2,3 instead of all being 1.
>> 
>> Thus far I've done:
>> 
>> 1)
>> mkanalysis-sess \
>>   -fsd bold -stc up -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 5 \
>>   -event-related -paradigm para.tsv -nconditions 3 \
>>   -spmhrf 0 -TR 0.984 -refeventdur 24 -nskip 2 -polyfit 2 \
>>   -analysis conjunction_analysis.lh  -per-run -force
>> 
>> 2) Create all the contrasts
>> mkcontrast-sess -analysis conjunction_analysis.lh -contrast task-1 -a 1
>> mkcontrast-sess -analysis conjunction_analysis.lh -contrast task-2 -a 2
>> mkcontrast-sess -analysis conjunction_analysis.lh -contrast task-3 -a 3
>> 
>> 3) Run the analysis with
>> selxavg3-sess -s subj01 -analysis conjunction_analysis.lh \
>> -c task-1 \
>> -c task-2 \
>> -c task-3
>> 
>> Then cd into subj01/bold/conjunction_analysis.lh
>>  
>> and finally
>> 
>> 4) mri_concat
>> mri_concat lang-cond-1/sig.nii.gz lang-cond-2/sig.nii.gz 
>> lang-cond-3/sig.nii.gz --conjunct 
>> --o conjunction.nii.gz
>> 
>> Does this look right? Also, what would be the proper command to view the 
>> conjunction after running this? Sorry this is very long winded, I just want 
>> to make sure I'm doing everything properly.
>> 
>> Thank you again!
>> From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 
>> <freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Douglas N. Greve 
>> <dgr...@mgh.harvard.edu>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:25:31 PM
>> To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Functional Overlap Map
>>  
>> I'm not entirely sure what you are doing. It sounds like you have 3 
>> different conditions and want to find out where the activation for all 
>> conditions overlaps. But what you have done is to combine all conditions 
>> into a single condition, so you are seeing where the average activation 
>> is, which is different than the overlap (and why it looks to have to 
>> much of an extent). To do what you want to do, you should model each 
>> condition as a separate condition in mkanalysis (ie, -nconditions 3 and 
>> change your paradigm file), set up 3 contrasts (one for each condition, 
>> ie, -a 1, -a 2, -a 3), then you will need to do a conjunction analysis 
>> (mri_concat con1/sig.nii.gz con2/sig.nii.gz con3/sig.nii.gz --conjunct 
>> --o conjunction.nii.gz). You can then view the conjunction with freeview 
>> (or tksurfer/tkmedit)
>> 
>> 
>> On 03/20/2018 06:30 PM, nm644 wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Freesurfer experts,
>> >
>> > My question may have already been solved in a previous thread. I have 
>> > three runs of block-design bold scans. All three are quite similar. 
>> > They all have only 2 blocks, one for rest and one for task. I’m trying 
>> > to create a functional map that displays where the functional 
>> > activation of these three runs overlap. I used the code below with no 
>> > errors:
>> >
>> > preproc-sess -s subj01 -fsd bold -stc up -surface fsaverage lhrh 
>> > -mni305 -fwhm 5 -per-run
>> >
>> > mkanalysis-sess \
>> >
>> >   -fsd bold -stc up -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 5 \
>> >
>> > -event-related -paradigm para.tsv -nconditions 1 \
>> >
>> >   -spmhrf 0 -TR 0.984 -refeventdur 24 -nskip 2 -polyfit 2 \
>> >
>> >   -analysis TaskOverlap.lh  -per-run -force
>> >
>> > mkcontrast-sess -analysis TaskOverlap.lh -contrast con1 -a 1
>> >
>> > selxavg3-sess -s subj01 -analysis TaskOverlap.lh
>> >
>> > And to display:
>> >
>> > tksurfer-sess -s subj01 \
>> >
>> > -analysis TaskOverlap.lh \
>> >
>> > -c con1
>> >
>> > Or
>> >
>> > tksurfer-sess -s subj01 \
>> >
>> > -analysis TaskOverlap.lh \
>> >
>> > -c con1 -map fsig
>> >
>> > The problem is that when I view the output it seems that there’s far 
>> > more activation than there should be when trying to find mutual 
>> > overlap between the three tasks. If anyone has any suggestions it 
>> > would be much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Have a great day!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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