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fmri (version 1.9.12.1)

fmri.searchlight: Searchlight signal detection

Description

Detection of activated regions using searchlights.

Usage

fmri.searchlight(spm, alpha = 0.05, radius, minimum.signal = 0,
   kind = c("abs", "squared"))

Value

Object with class attributes "fmripvalue" and "fmridata"

pvalue

voxelwise p-value if exceeding FDR-critical value, 1 otherwise.

weights

voxelsize ratio

dim

data dimension

hrf

expected BOLD response for contrast (single stimulus only)

Arguments

spm

fmrispm object

alpha

multiple test (over volume) adjusted significance level.

radius

radius of searchlight. Value needs to be larger or equal than 1.

minimum.signal

allows to specify a (positive) minimum value for detected signals. If minimum.signal >0 the thresholds are to conservative, this case needs further improvements.

kind

Kind of statistics used for aggregation over search light region. "abs" specifies averaging of absolute voxelwise t-statistics while "squared" corresponds to averaging of squares of these statistics.

Author

Joerg Polzehl polzehl@wias-berlin.de

Details

The function computes mean statistics (depending on kind) over a searchlight region of radius radius. Approximate voxelwise p-values are determined with respect an empirical (simulated) distribution of the searchlight statistics under the null hypothesis a central t-distributed spm. Thresholding used FDR with rate alpha.

References

Kriegeskorte, N.; Goebel, R. & Bandettini, P. (2006) Information-based functional brain mapping, PNAS 103:3863-3868.

See Also

fmri.lm, fmri.pvalue, fmri.cluster

Examples

Run this code
  if (FALSE) fmri.searchlight(fmrispmobj)

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