Tutorial: Scouts
This tutorial is based on Sabine Meunier's somatotopy experiment, called TutorialCTF in your Brainstorm database.
A scout in Brainstorm designates a region of interest on the cortical surface. It is defined by a subset of the vertices of this surface.This document will explain how to create one or several scouts, use them to retrieve the activity of specific parts of the brain, and compare between conditions.
Contents
Creating a scout
Almost all the features related to the scouts manipulation are accessible in the Scouts tab in main Brainstorm window. We are going to use this panel to create a scout that includes the cortical area that we observed in the previous tutorial: the one that responds to the stimulation of the right thumb.
Select the protocol TutorialCTF, and display the times series for Subject01 / StimRightThumb / ERP (double-click).
- Display the associated sources (try it from the time series figure: Ctrl+S, or figure popup menu)
- Go to 46ms, and set the data threshold around 80%.
Switch to the Scouts tab, click on the first button (a big cross), and then click in the middle of the red stain in left hemisphere in the 3D figure (rotate and zoom before if necessary). A small dot with the labe "1" appears where you clicked. Your first scout is created, and contains only one vertex for the moment.
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