Study of the neural processing of emotionally provocative auditory stimuli. Specifically you want to figure out what regions of the brain are activated when subjects are listening to positive compared to negative emotional musical and nonemotional - nonmusical stimuli (pure neutral tones) during fMRI scanning.
In this dataset, participants listened in blocks of 33 seconds to positive or negative music. Music blocks were interleaved with 33 seconds of pure tone listening, following the paradigm described in Lepping, et al., 2015 (see Fig.1 of bibliographical reference [1]). The last 3 seconds of each musical block was used to make sure participants were paying attention, where they had to press a button to indicate if they found the samples to be positive or negative.
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BET: skull stripping?? -> bc no registration to MNI space needed i don't think necessary FAST: tissue segmentation -> useful bc want to look at specific areas for our study MCFLIRT: motion correction standardize: for camparision and concatenation SUSAN: spatial smoothing slice timing correction? If the acquisition was done with a multi-slice technique, this step corrects for the timing differences in slice acquisition, ensuring accurate alignment of temporal data.