Teodora,
1. The option '-polort p' tells 3dDeconvolve to model the baseline with a polynomial of order
p. Therefore '-polort 0' would model the baseline with a constant, while '-polort 1', which is the default, would model the baseline with a straightline.
2. If you don't have any rest period in the experiment, just use '-porlort -1'. There is no way for the program to model the baseline in this case, and everything in the signal is interpreted from those stimuli/regressors plus noise.
Gang