I have several regressors in my 3dDeconvolve script and for one of them, many participants have no relevant events. In these cases I've been using the -stim_times option and having a single '*' symbol to indicate 'no stimuli in the given class'.

Despite this I get the following warnings:

*+ WARNING: -stim_times 12 has all times equal to '*' ?!?!
++ -stim_times 12 using GLOBAL times
*+ WARNING: '-stim_times 12' (GLOBAL) has 1 '*' fillers; do you want LOCAL times?
*+ WARNING: !! '-stim_times 12' file '../canonicals/75.6.1D' has no good time values:

I can't find anywhere in your documentation whether the '*' symbol option can only be used with -local_times, but I get this hint from the error message.

If this is the case, is there anyway I can implement a similar option with -global_times? Or, will I have to convert my files from -global_times to local times?

Below is the script I'm using.


3dDeconvolve -input $2.allruns.edge+orig.HEAD \
-global_times -x1D stdout: \
-GOFORIT 999 \
-CENSORTR '*:0-4', '*:185-194' \
-concat ../canonicals/concat.1D \
-polort 3 -fitts $2.fitt -fdisp 1000 -num_stimts 11 \
-stim_times 1 ../canonicals/$2.1.1D 'BLOCK(1,1)' \
-stim_label 1 redstops \
-stim_times 2 ../canonicals/$2.3.1D 'BLOCK(1,1)' \
-stim_label 2 rederrors \
-stim_times 3 ../canonicals/$2.2.1D 'BLOCK(1,1)' \
-stim_label 3 whitestops \
-stim_times 4 ../canonicals/$2.7.1D 'BLOCK(30,1)' \
-stim_label 4 redblock \
-stim_file 5 $2.motion.1D\[0\] -stim_base 5 -stim_label 5 m0 \
-stim_file 6 $2.motion.1D\[1\] -stim_base 6 -stim_label 6 m1 \
-stim_file 7 $2.motion.1D\[2\] -stim_base 7 -stim_label 7 m2 \
-stim_file 8 $2.motion.1D\[3\] -stim_base 8 -stim_label 8 m3 \
-stim_file 9 $2.motion.1D\[4\] -stim_base 9 -stim_label 9 m4 \
-stim_file 10 $2.motion.1D\[5\] -stim_base 10 -stim_label 10 m5 \
-stim_times 11 ../canonicals/$2.4.1D 'BLOCK(1,1)' \
-stim_label 11 whiteerrors \
-fout -rout -bout -tout \
-bucket $2.punish.dec