[Freesurfer] Appropriate levels of surface smoothing

2014-10-27 Thread Kirstie Whitaker
Hi everyone, Firstly - thank you for the excellent tools. This year has been my first foray into surfaced based analysis and I'm enjoying it very much. I don't currently have a gut instinct for an appropriate level of surface smoothing. I'm sure that can't be easily answered but would a range

Re: [Freesurfer] Appropriate levels of surface smoothing

2014-10-27 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Kirstie there is no easy answer to this question, but there are some guidelines: 1. The size of the smoothing kernel depends on the size of the effect you are looking for and how well you expect it to align across subjects. For example, you would need a far smaller smoothing kernel if you