SPM pipeline for learning tasks

This repository was initially created on 18-05-2022 for an internship in the Section of Cognitive Psychology at the Department of Psychology at the University of Bonn from 15-03-2022 to 15-06-2022.

It contains scripts for analysis of behavioral and hemodynamic data of subjects¹ who performed a Procedural Learning² task and an Object Location Association³ task.

Citation

If you use this code or parts of it, please cite:

Vorreuther, A., Kasparbauer, A., Ettinger, U. (2022). A custom analysis pipeline for fMRI data using the Statistical Parametric Mapping software. Retrieved from https://github.com/acv132/SPM_pipeline_learning_tasks.

@unpublished{vorreuther2022,
title = {A custom analysis pipeline for fMRI data using the Statistical Parametric Mapping software},
author = {{Vorreuther, Anna}, {Kasparbauer, Anna}, {Ettinger, Ulrich}},
year = {2022},
howpublished = {Retrieved from https://github.com/acv132/SPM_pipeline_learning_tasks},
note = {unpublished}
}

Requirements

• IBM SPSS 25
• SPM 12
• marsbar 0.45
• WFU PickAtlas 3.0.5b

Setup

Make sure that all required toolboxes and software are installed and running. For help, refer to the respective website and documentation (see also links above).

Recommended folder setup

When downloading the code, it is recommended to move the folder containing the data of subjects (not available here) adjacent to the analysis_script folder:

├───analysis_script
│   ├───behavioral
│   │   ├───OLA
│   │   └───PL
│   ├───data
│   │   └───ROIs
│   │       ├───OLA
│   │       └───PL
│   ├───fmri
│   │   ├───OLA
│   │   ├───PL
│   │   └───preprocessing
│   ├───results (created by scripts)
│   │   ├───behavioral
│   │	└───[optionally add a batch file to fmri results folder here]
│   └───utils
│       └───...
└───DATA
    ├───Additional Logfiles
    ├───Behavioral
    ├───Subjects
    └───results

The DATA folder should contain all additional logfiles, behavioral and subject fmri data. A results folder will be generated here for the fmri results by the analysis script.

References

Footnotes

1. Kasparbauer, A. M., Meyhöfer, I., Steffens, M., Weber, B., Aydin, M., Kumari, V., ... & Ettinger, U. (2016). Neural effects of methylphenidate and nicotine during smooth pursuit eye movements. Neuroimage, 141, 52-59. ↩

2. Ettinger, U., Corr, P. J., Mofidi, A., Williams, S. C., & Kumari, V. (2013). Dopaminergic basis of the psychosis-prone personality investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging of procedural learning. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7, 130. ↩

3. Kukolja, J., Thiel, C. M., Wilms, M., Mirzazade, S., & Fink, G. R. (2009). Ageing-related changes of neural activity associated with spatial contextual memory. Neurobiology of aging, 30(4), 630-645. ↩