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Background

fMRI-Adaptation (fMRI-A) refers to the phenomenon that, as a region of cortex is activated by a stimulus repeatedly, it becomes less responsive overall to successive presentations of the stimulus. fMRI-A has been studied in depth (Grill-Spector et al., 2006, Weiner et al., 2010).

Choices as to how to analyze timecourse data in event-related designs can have important consequences. Shorter inter-stimulus intervals lead to signal overlap across trials and may induce dependencies and nonlinearities in a dataset.

Region of Interest (ROI) analyses provide crucial information, yet they also oversimplify data by boiling activation across an entire region down to a single timecourse. Multi-voxel patterns can be used to further investigate and characterize the distribution of activity within a region.

Figure 1

Methods

MR acquisition

Data were obtained on a 3-Tesla GE scanner. 12 slices were acquired at a resolution of 1.5 x 1.5 x 3.0 mm. TR was 1,000 ms and TE was 30 ms. Slices were acquired using a two-shot T2*-sensitive spiral acquisition sequence. The flip angle was 77 degrees and the field of view was 192 mm.

MR Analysis

The MR data was analyzed using mrVista software tools.

Pre-processing

Data were pre-processed (motion corrected, slice time corrected, etc.) by Weiner and colleagues.

Results

HRFs vs. Deconvolution

Some text. Some analysis. Some figures.

Retinotopic models in individual subjects transformed into MNI space

Some text. Some analysis. Some figures.

Retinotopic models in group-averaged data on the MNI template brain

Some text. Some analysis. Some figures. Maybe some equations.

Equations

If you want to use equations, you can use the same formats that are use on wikipedia.
See wikimedia help on formulas for help.
This example of equation use is copied and pasted from wikipedia's article on the DFT.

The sequence of N complex numbers x₀, ..., x_N−1 is transformed into the sequence of N complex numbers X₀, ..., X_N−1 by the DFT according to the formula:

$X_k=\sum _{n=0}^{N-1}{x}_n{e}^{-\frac{2\pi i}{N}kn}k=0,\dots ,N-1$

where i is the imaginary unit and $e^{\frac{2\pi i}{N}}$ is a primitive N'th root of unity. (This expression can also be written in terms of a DFT matrix; when scaled appropriately it becomes a unitary matrix and the X_k can thus be viewed as coefficients of x in an orthonormal basis.)

The transform is sometimes denoted by the symbol $ℱ$, as in $𝐗=ℱ\left\{𝐱\right\}$ or $ℱ\left(𝐱\right)$ or $ℱ𝐱$.

The inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) is given by

$x_n=\frac{1}{N}\sum _{k=0}^{N-1}{X}_k{e}^{\frac{2\pi i}{N}kn}n=0,\dots ,N-1.$

Retinotopic models in group-averaged data projected back into native space

Some text. Some analysis. Some figures.

Conclusions

Here is where you say what your results mean.

References - Resources and related work

References

Software

Appendix I - Code and Data

Code

File:CodeFile.zip

Data

zip file with my data