Dane,
> One thought our team had in response to your concerns was running Seed-to-whole brain FC correlations analysis using onlyve
> non-overlapping/interleaved portions of our condition of interest for the seed signal to avoid the modeling/deconvolution issue.
> Would there be any conceptual issues to looking for correlations of this partial signal (e.g. without many of the HDR tails)?
Conceptually this may work if the interval between two consecutive trials is, for example, 10 seconds or more. I don't have any experience with this in real practice, so it's to say how well it works.
Gang