Hi Gang,
I picked 1 voxel from anterior intraparietal sulcus (IPS), which we usually see strong modulation with task-covariates. "Coef" (I'm assuming this is "beta") and "Tstat" from decon_results+orig (output file of 3dDecon) for this voxel during one type of trial are: (time points 0-9)
Coef Tstat
-0.1947 -0.1641
-0.0314 -0.2652
0.2725 2.2806
0.3893 3.2582
0.1590 1.3242
-0.1989 -1.6512
-0.2729 -2.2698
-0.3023 -2.5223
-0.2204 -1.8550
-0.1105 -0.9183
and SD is 0.118 across the time-series. There are 26 trials in this trial type, which makes SEM = 0.118/sqrt(26) = 0.0236. This is almost 1/5 ~ 1/10 of SEM that I'm used to seeing with trial-averaged time-series. Are SEM calculations for decon and trial-average different?
Thanks for your inputs! Akiko