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Enum: DesignType

How a task's events were modelled in time -- not what the task was or what it showed. Open vocabulary: write the source's own wording in the field when nothing here fits.

URI: neurostudy:DesignType

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
block None Conditions presented in extended runs of like trials and modelled as those ru...
event_related None Individual trials modelled as separate events
mixed None Both in one run -- events modelled within blocks that are themselves modelled
continuous None No discrete events modelled: resting state, film or music played through, nat...

In Subsets

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://neurostuff.org/schemas/neuroimaging-study-storage

LinkML Source

name: DesignType
description: 'How a task''s events were modelled in time -- not what the task was
  or what it showed. Open vocabulary: write the source''s own wording in the field
  when nothing here fits.'
in_subset:
- mvp
- model_extracted
from_schema: https://neurostuff.org/schemas/neuroimaging-study-storage
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  block:
    text: block
    description: 'Conditions presented in extended runs of like trials and modelled
      as those runs. Covers `blocked`, `block design` and a randomised or alternating
      block order: randomisation is how the blocks were sequenced, not a different
      design.'
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - model_extracted
  event_related:
    text: event_related
    description: Individual trials modelled as separate events. Rapid, slow and fast
      variants are this design at different inter-stimulus intervals; write the source's
      phrase in the field when that distinction matters.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - model_extracted
  mixed:
    text: mixed
    description: Both in one run -- events modelled within blocks that are themselves
      modelled. Only where the source says it used both, not where a block design
      happens to have trials.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - model_extracted
  continuous:
    text: continuous
    description: 'No discrete events modelled: resting state, film or music played
      through, naturalistic viewing. The task ran continuously and the analysis is
      of that run.'
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - model_extracted