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If a curse were removed, "Slow Dance" could have been an AM radio hit during the Johnson administration, with its da-da-da-da backing vocals and genteel groove.
Secondly, to remove slow shifts in DC offset, raw traces were high-pass filtered (with a cut-off frequency of 0.5 Hz using a first order Butterworth high-pass filter in MATLAB).
Functional data preprocessing included slice time correction, motion correction, linear trend removal and high pass filtering of frequencies above 3 cycles per time course to remove slow drifts in fMRI signal.
For preprocessing, data were sinc-interpolated to correct for nonsimultaneous slice acquisition, corrected for three-dimensional motion, high-pass filtered to remove slow trends (>0.01 Hz), and normalized to percent signal change relative to the voxel mean across the task.
We removed from further analyses any trials upon which subjects made an error, although we did not remove slow responses (those >2 std. dev. greater than each subjects mean), but these were a very small proportion of the overall trials included.
This renders the phasic responses finite and removes slow signal drifts which are difficult to model.
The time series was then high-pass filtered at 100 s to remove slow drifts from the data.
We did not remove slow reaction times as this was not a rapidity task, and participants were told that they could take up to 8 s to answer.
However, we removed slow reactions (nr4, nr11-nr13, Figure 4A) using the method MR1, and removed the reaction of NF-κB degradation (nr23), which was not significant for reproducing the experimental data of the original model.
