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1st level PPMs with local spatial priors Neighbouring voxels often not independent Spatial dependencies vary across the brain But spatial smoothing in SPM is uniform Matched filter theorem: SNR maximal when smoothing the data with a kernel which matches the smoothness of the true signal Basic idea: estimate regional spatial dependencies from the data and use this as a prior in a PPM? regionally specific smoothing? markedly increased sensitivity Contrast map AR(1) map Penny et al. 2005, NeuroImage b A q1 q2 a W Y u1 u2 l Y=XW+E r1 r2 The generative spatio-temporal model Penny et al. 2005, Neu