brain

尖椒土豆丝与自由意志

饭店里,你拿着菜单,在思考是点西红柿炒鸡蛋还是尖椒土豆丝。这个问题显然很重要,因为你已经考虑了几分钟了。最后,你下定了决心,拍了脑瓜子,说,就要土豆丝了。你如释重负。旁边的服务员可能夸你,说你做出了最
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人对时间的感知(原创)

我在读博期间做的研究是”人对时间的感知“,有些有意思的现象,权当饭后谈资吧。下面的研究是我的联合导师David Eagleman和他的学生做的。 —- 2006年一个普通日子的下午,王敏来
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SVM regression (SVR) vs Linear Regression

One particular nice thing about SVR is that the weight of each feature reflects the feature’s true contribution. If some features are highly correlated (this is common in neuroimaging data – e.g. adjacent voxel activity are very similar),
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Artinis’ PortaLite

Note: I am not affiliated with Artinis and they don’t pay me for this post. If you also sell portable NIRS device and would like to demo to me, I am happy to see it. Marco, the salesman of Artinis, gave me a demo of their wireless/portable NIRS
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Find anatomical location of a list of MNI coordinates

Quite often you need to know what is the brain structure (anatomical name) of a given coordinate, say (-8, 2, 6)? Is there a program for this? The answer is yes. Please download the following matlab script: cuixufindstructure.m This program requires
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Secrete usage of xjview: Creating a mask based on…

Many users have created masks from a T-test image; xjView also allows you to create a mask based anatomy. Say, if you want to create a mask of Amygdala, how to do that? (You need to use xjview 8.10. 1 min video demo at http://youtu.be/31q_6jumhhM) 1.
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An fMRI ROI analysis program (beta)

Previously I said I was developing a ROI analysis program (https://www.alivelearn.net/?p=1421). Here it is: Download main program (beta version) at https://www.alivelearn.net/xjview/xjviewpro/xjviewpro.p Download sample input excel file: https://www.
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Convert coordinates in MNI space to matrix space

Quite often you need to convert the coordinates of some voxels in MNI space to regular matrix coordinates. Below is a script to do so: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% mni2cor %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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What does a wavelet coherence plot tell you?

Can you find any pattern in the two signals, green and blue? The blue signal is the brain wave (measured by NIRS) of a person when he is pressing some buttons (the timing of button pressing is shown in the vertical lines); the green signal is also br
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