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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2018 Aug 18;181:818–830. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.039

Table 1. List of user-specified options for DCM inversion.

Field Description Examples
Standard DCM
DCM.options.analysis Data feature to be modeled 'ERP', 'CSD'
DCM.options.model Type of neural mass model 'ERP', 'CMC', 'MMC', 'BGT', 'NFM', 'NMM'
DCM.options.spatial Type of spatial (forward) model 'ECD', 'IMG', 'LFP'
DCM.options.trials Indices of trials (conditions) [1 2]
DCM.options.Nmodes Number of spatial modes to invert 8
DCM.options.D Time bin decimation (down-sampling) 1
DCM.options.Tdcm [start end] Time window in ms [0 1000]
DCM.options.onset Stimulus onset in ms – used in DCM for ERP 60
DCM.options.dur Stimulus dispersion (standard deviations) in ms – used in DCM for ERP 16
DCM.options.Fdcm [start end] Frequency window in Hz – used in DCM for CSD [4 48]
Generic DCM
DCM.options.model(n).source Type of neural mass model for the n-th source 'ERP', 'CMC', 'MMC', 'BGT'
DCM.options.model(n).B Index number of intrinsic connections exhibiting condition-specific effects (optional) [2 3 4 7], [1 4 7 10], [1:10]
DCM.options.model(n).J Index number of neural states that contribute to the measured signal. Sets their prior expectation to 1 (optional) 3
DCM.options.model(n).K Index number of neural states for which their contribution to the measured signal is estimated from the data. Sets their prior variance to 1/32 (optional) [1 7]
Other options as listed for the standard DCM implementation