[color=#000000]Hi Benxamin,[/color]
[color=#000000]Yes, that's a perfectly valid approach, simply keep in mind that the secondary analyses are 'post-hoc' analyses so it is perfectly fine to use them to help you interpret the original ICA-differences that you have already observed, but not as new independent confirmatory tests. [/color]
[color=#000000]Best[/color]
[color=#000000]Alfonso[/color]
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[/color][i]Originally posted by Benxamin varela:[/i][quote]Hi Alfonso and CONN users.
I am a pre-doctoral student with very little experience in the field of brain connectivity. I am trying to publish my first article using ICA through CONN. I had an idea to make more complete the independent component analysis through the seed to voxel method but I am not sure if it is methodologically valid or if it is meaningful.The idea would be to use the significant clusters derived from the second level analyses results (diferences between groups) of the ICAs as seeds for a seed-to-voxel analysis, with the intention of knowing the origin of the differences in connectivity between these clusters and the independent components (the region within the network that is hypoconnected/hyperconnected with those clusters).
Any comment will be very appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance. I apologize for asking these types of questions, I know that the CONN forum may not be for this type of doubt.
Best regards.
Benxamin.[/quote]
[color=#000000]Yes, that's a perfectly valid approach, simply keep in mind that the secondary analyses are 'post-hoc' analyses so it is perfectly fine to use them to help you interpret the original ICA-differences that you have already observed, but not as new independent confirmatory tests. [/color]
[color=#000000]Best[/color]
[color=#000000]Alfonso[/color]
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[/color][i]Originally posted by Benxamin varela:[/i][quote]Hi Alfonso and CONN users.
I am a pre-doctoral student with very little experience in the field of brain connectivity. I am trying to publish my first article using ICA through CONN. I had an idea to make more complete the independent component analysis through the seed to voxel method but I am not sure if it is methodologically valid or if it is meaningful.The idea would be to use the significant clusters derived from the second level analyses results (diferences between groups) of the ICAs as seeds for a seed-to-voxel analysis, with the intention of knowing the origin of the differences in connectivity between these clusters and the independent components (the region within the network that is hypoconnected/hyperconnected with those clusters).
Any comment will be very appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance. I apologize for asking these types of questions, I know that the CONN forum may not be for this type of doubt.
Best regards.
Benxamin.[/quote]