Help: fatal error when contrasting activity across conditions

Hi!

I am getting a few error messages when attempting to run a script to contrast activity across conditions. Here is the script I am running:
3dDeconvolve -force_TR 2 -input scaled_allruns+orig -mask retrieval_mask+orig -concat ‘1D: 0 60 120 180 240 300’ \

-polort 1
-num_stimts 4
-stim_times 1 stimtimes_list ‘BLOCK(2,1)’
-stim_times 2 stimtimes_write ‘BLOCK(2,1)’
-stim_times 3 stimtimes_draw ‘BLOCK(2,1)’
-stim_times 4 stimtimes_new ‘BLOCK(2,1)’
-stim_label 1 write_tar
-stim_label 2 list_tar
-stim_label 3 draw_tar
-stim_label 4 new_tar
-gltsym ‘SYM: draw_tar -write_tar’
-gltsym ‘SYM: draw_tar -list_tar’
-gltsym ‘SYM: draw_tar -new_tar’
-gltsym ‘SYM: list_tar -write_tar’
-gltsym ‘SYM: list_tar -new_tar’
-gltsym ‘SYM: write_tar -new_tar’
-glt_label 1 draw_write
-glt_label 2 draw_list
-glt_label 3 draw_new
-glt_label 4 list_write
-glt_label 5 list_new
-glt_label 6 write_new
-fitts fitts_event
-fout -tout -rout -bucket decon_sa_event
-x1D X.xmat.1D -xjpeg X.jpg

Here is the error I am getting:
** ERROR: mri_read_ascii_ragged_fvect: couldn’t open file stimtimes_list
** FATAL ERROR: ‘-stim_times 1’ can’t read file ‘stimtimes_list’ [nopt=15]

I’ve checked to ensure that the stimtimes files are properly named, so I am unsure how to proceed. Please advise.
Thank you,
Nicole

Hi Nicole,

What does that file (stimtimes_list) look like? Can you show it here?

  • rick

the stimtimes_list files are txt files that look like below:

0 18 30 46 90
4 62 94 108 110
24 46 88 92 110
2 4 20 100 108
6 50 62 88 100
10 32 76 92 110

the files are identical to the stimtimes_write, stimtimes_draw, and stimtimes_new text files.