UserDefinedTimings

Creating Timing Files with User-Defined Variables

1. Load your data into DataViewer.
2. Create a Trial Report with the following variables. (Analysis > Reports > Trial Report). Note: you will have to do this separately for each scan run). You can do it for multiple subjects at a single time, as long as you import them all into the same DataViewer session.
   • RECORDING_SESSION_LABEL
   • INDEX
   • VIDEO_ELAPSED_TIME_FROM_PULSE
   • RESPONSE_ELAPSED_TIME_FROM_PULSE
   • imagetype
   • emotion (for SPONT runs)
   • type (for SPR runs)
3. Save your report with the following format, where ?? is the subject number (e.g., 01, 02, etc.).
   • Spontaneous run 1: SPONT1_sub??.txt
   • Spontaneous run 2: SPONT2_sub??.txt
   • SPR run 1: SPR1_sub??.txt
   • SPR run 2: SPR2_sub??.txt
4. Create separate folders for SPONT and SPR.
5. Copy the .txt Trial Reports to their corresponding folders (SPONT1 AND SPONT2 should go to the SPONT folder).
6. For each experiment (SPONT and SPR), there are two scripts that will create your timing files. Copy the scripts into your new SPONT and SPR files.
   1. SPONT: spont_timings.py and multiple_spont_timings.sh
   2. SPR : spr_timings.py and multiple_spr_timings.sh
7. Navigate (use cd) into either the SPR or SPONT folder. You should have the two script files and all of your trials report files in this folder.
8. Edit line 2 of the multiple script. Change 01 to a list of the subjects you would like to create timing files for.
   • E.g., 01 02 07 14
9. Save the multiple script.
10. Run the multiple script.
    • sh multiple_spont_timings.sh
    • sh multiple_spr_timings.sh
11. If everything went right, you should end up with some 1D files containing the timing information in the format that AFNI is looking for.

Your SPONT folder should look similar to this:

Your SPR folder should look similar to this: