Tutorial widgets

This page includes all widgets used throughout the tutorials. In the event the widgets cannot be access, please send us a message at jculham<at> uwo.ca. Video demonstrations of the widgets are also available here.

Tutorial 2

 

Widget 1: Fitting a sine wave

A predictor function can be scaled by a beta weight to fit simulated data for two voxels and a Pearson correlation coefficient (r) can be determined.

 

Widget 2: Fitting one predictor to the localizer

A model with one predictor (visual stimulation vs. baseline) can be used to fit different voxels from one run of one participant for the course localizer data.

 

Widget 3: Fitting one predictor with a square wave

Comparison of correlations with and without convolution of the predictor

Tutorial 3

 

Widget 4: Fitting 4 predictors to the localizer data

A model with four predictors (faces, hands, bodies, scrambled) is used to fit activation for 3 voxels.

 

Widget 5: Fitting a baseline predictor

The effect of erroneously including a redundant baseline predictor. To make the two predictors completely redundant, we used the unconvolved (box car) versions of the predictors. The redundancy would be slightly less with convolved predictors; nevertheless, redundancy would be suboptimal.

Tutorial 4

 

Serial correlation

Allows you to calculate the correlation between the original residuals function and a shifted version.

Tutorial 6

 

Linear drift

How linear trend removal affects the GLM

 

Temporal filtering (Two conditions + Baseline)

How temporal filtering affects the GLM. To perform high-pass filtering, set the minimum frequency to remove frequencies below that value. To perform low-pass filtering, set the maximum frequency to remove frequencies above that value. To do band-pass filtering, set minimum and maximum frequencies to remove frequencies at either extreme.

 

Temporal filtering (Localizer data)

Same as previous widget, but on Localizer timecourse

Tutorial 7

 

Deconvolution

Adjust each beta weight to minimize the error.