I recommend the following steps for analyzing your data:
- Center the
slope
variable within each condition. - Replace the original
slope
values in the data table with the newly centered values. - Run the analysis using
3dLMEr
with a script like the one below:
3dLMEr -prefix EndvsBoundINTSlope -jobs 16 \
-model 'Condition*slope+(slope|Subj)' \
-qVars 'slope' \
-qVarCenters 0 \
-gltCode 1 Slope 'slope :' \
-gltCode 2 Condition 'Condition : 1*VOT -1*VOW' \
-gltCode 3 Condition_by_Slope 'Condition : 1*VOT -1*VOW slope :' \
-dataTable \
Subj Slope Condition InputFile \
...
For details on specifying hierarchical models, refer to this blog post.
Gang Chen