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Open Data

If you publish work that uses these data please cite the corresponding paper for each dataset.

  1. Natural Images fMRI Data (vim-1)

    BOLD fMRI responses from 2 subjects viewing natural images across 70 experimental runs collected over 5 separate days, demonstrating identification of viewed images from brain activity using Bayesian reconstruction.

    Kay, K. N., Naselaris, T., Prenger, R. J., & Gallant, J. L. (2008). Identifying natural images from human brain activity. Nature, 452(7185), 352-355.

  2. Natural Movie 4T fMRI Data (vim-2)

    BOLD fMRI responses from 3 subjects viewing natural movies, collected across 3 sessions on separate days, used in the landmark study reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity.

    Nishimoto, S., Vu, A. T., Naselaris, T., Benjamini, Y., Yu, B., & Gallant, J. L. (2011). Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies. Current Biology, 21(19), 1641-1646.

  3. Natural Short Clips 3T fMRI Data

    BOLD fMRI responses from 5 human subjects viewing natural short video clips across 3 sessions over 3 separate days for each subject.

    Popham, S. F., Huth, A. G., Bilenko, N. Y., Deniz, F., Gao, J. S., Nunez-Elizalde, A. O., & Gallant, J. L. (2021). Visual and linguistic semantic representations are aligned at the border of human visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 24(11), 1628-1636.

  4. Naturalistic fMRI Data (vim-4)

    Whole-brain BOLD fMRI responses from human subjects performing a visual attention task and a video game task in naturalistic experimental conditions.

    Zhang, T., Gao, J. S., Çukur, T., & Gallant, J. L. (2021). Voxel-based state space modeling recovers task-related cognitive states in naturalistic fmri experiments. Frontiers in neuroscience, 14, 565976.

  5. Semantic Listening vs Reading fMRI Data

    BOLD fMRI responses from human subjects during listening and reading tasks, demonstrating modality-invariant semantic information representation across cerebral cortex.

    Deniz, F., Nunez-Elizalde, A. O., Huth, A. G., & Gallant, J. L. (2019). The representation of semantic information across human cerebral cortex during listening versus reading is invariant to stimulus modality. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(39), 7722-7736.

  6. Story Listening fMRI Data

    BOLD fMRI responses from human subjects listening to natural narrative stories, used to map semantic representations and create detailed semantic atlases of language processing across the human cerebral cortex.

    Huth, A. G., De Heer, W. A., Griffiths, T. L., Theunissen, F. E., & Gallant, J. L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532(7600), 453-458.