cortex.dataset.Vertex.empty

classmethod Vertex.empty(subject, value=0, **kwargs)

Create a constant-valued VertexData for the given subject. Often useful for testing purposes.

Parameters:

subjectstr

Subject identifier. Must exist in the pycortex database.

valuefloat, optional

Value that the VertexData will be filled with.

**kwargs

Other keyword arguments are passed to the init function for this class.

Returns:

VertexData subclass

A VertexData subclass object whose data is constant, equal to value.