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While discussing data analysis with a coworker today, I Jokingly said my experience on brain imaging can be condensed into two lines of code: V = spm_vol('filename.img'); % note: spm_vol can also take nii files as input M = spm_read_vols(V); % M is a
We had an interesting discussion on the difference between sex and gender. According to Allan, sex refers to the biological difference (chromosomes contain Y), while gender refers to how a person thinks of himself/herself. So when a person believes h
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Great post by Liz Elcoate. The following diagram by her describes my situation very well. No work + No money = Inertia + Paralysing fear + Panic = NIL productivity
Go-Nogo game This game is fairly simple, but it’s very hard to get all correct. A subject sits in front of a computer. In the “go” block, a series of letters will appear one after another in the center of the screen. The subject has
Previous post “Games used in human brain research ” The finger tapping task mentioned in the last post is rather boring. How interesting it is to move fingers? So in this post I will talk about a more interesting task: competitive butt
Some noise is easy to detect – simply plotting the time courses of NIRS signal, you will find the noise so out of range and you will discard the data. However, I find in some instances the noise level seems to be in the normal range but the dat