This has been running thru my head: > P.S. It is somewhat off-putting to hear that people are studying brain > function for purely marketing purposes.
I think it is inevitable. And as long as the research contributes to public knowledge, we will learn about the neuroscience of our biases and various types of cognitive blindsight, motivated reasoning, etc. We are human machines, with our conscious Rider and our sub/pre/unconscious Elephant of the Rider and the Elephant Metaphor. Optimistically, the more we understand, the less susceptible we are to manipulation. As the Oracle of Delphi said: Know Thyself! YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh <> jch.com <> Pixelsmith Jeff Lehman's five virtues: a love for complexity, a patient spirit, a will to communicate, a sense of humor, and an optimistic heart. > On Jul 12, 2018, at 5:01 PM, Timothy Coalson <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have already said that using MNI coordinates to summarize activations is > not a good idea, since function and MNI coordinates are not tightly coupled > (because of individual variability in folding, and in location of function > with respect to folds). > > If you insist on going against our recommendations, then wb_command > -surface-coordinates-to-metric will get you the XYZ coordinates of surfaces > as metric files (so that they can be used as data values in other commands - > we already provide many surfaces in MNINonLinear space, the midthickness > surfaces are probably the most relevant), and wb_command -metric-stats will > allow you to average this coordinate data within ROIs (also specified as > metric files, so if your ROIs are in cifti format, you may need wb_command > -cifti-separate, or to use wb_command -cifti-create-dense-from-template to > put the surface coordinates into a cifti file, and then wb_command > -cifti-stats). > > Tim > > P.S. It is somewhat off-putting to hear that people are studying brain > function for purely marketing purposes. > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:52 PM, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > Dear experts, > > I have a question about MNI coordinates. > I am trying to find/make sets of MNI coordinates for my consumer research. > However it is difficult for me to dig into the coordinates of all behaviors > for each subject from HCP images. > So is there any way or suggestion for me to get a set of data of the MNI > cooridnates? Or is there any way to obtain the set of the data from the > software, wb_view? > It would be greatly appreciated that you can provide me the set of MNI > coordinates data in a certain type of file such as MS excel or even text > file. > Thank you for your help in advance. > > > Best, > > Dongjun Rew, MS in Stat, MBA, PhD candidate in Marketing > Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship > The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Office: 956.665.2590 <tel:956.665.2590> > _______________________________________________ > HCP-Users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.humanconnectome.org/mailman/listinfo/hcp-users > <http://lists.humanconnectome.org/mailman/listinfo/hcp-users> > _______________________________________________ > HCP-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.humanconnectome.org/mailman/listinfo/hcp-users > _______________________________________________ HCP-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.humanconnectome.org/mailman/listinfo/hcp-users
