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[FIX] clarify definition of events in common principles
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sappelhoff and VisLab committed Sep 3, 2020
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subject performed multiple conceptually different behaviors (with different
sets of instructions) they will be considered one (combined) task.

1. **Event** - a stimulus or subject response recorded during a task. Each
event has an onset time and duration. Note that not all tasks will have
recorded events (e.g., “resting state”).
1. **Event** - something that happens or may be perceived as happening at a particular
moment during the recording.
Events are most commonly associated with sudden-onset sensory stimulus presentations
or with the distinct onset of a subject motor action.
Other events may include unplanned incidents,
changes in task instructions or experiment control parameters,
and noted data feature occurrences.
In BIDS, each event has an onset time and duration.
Note that not all tasks will have recorded events (e.g., "resting state").

1. **Run** - an uninterrupted repetition of data acquisition that has the same
acquisition parameters and task (however events can change from run to run
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Two prominent examples of entities are `subject` and `session`.

For a data file that was collected in a given `session` from a given
`subject`, the file name MUST begin with the string `sub-<label>_ses-<label>`.
If the `session` level is omitted in the folder structure, the file name MUST begin
`subject`, the file name MUST begin with the string `sub-<label>_ses-<label>`.
If the `session` level is omitted in the folder structure, the file name MUST begin
with the string `sub-<label>`, without `ses-<label>`.

Note that `sub-<label>` corresponds to the `subject` entity because it has
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