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Gallant Lab Natural Short Clips fMRI Dataset

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. If you publish work that uses these data please cite the following paper: 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.
Gallant Lab Naturalistic fMRI Dataset

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. If you publish work that uses these data please cite the following paper: 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.
Gallant Lab Semantic Listening vs Reading fMRI Dataset

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. If you publish work that uses these data please cite the following paper: 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.
Gallant Lab Story Listening fMRI Dataset

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. If you publish work that uses these data please cite the following paper: 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.
Gallant Lab Natural Movie fMRI Dataset

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. If you publish work that uses these data please cite the following paper: 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.
Gallant Lab Natural Images fMRI Dataset

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. If you publish work that uses these data please cite the following paper: Kay, K. N., Naselaris, T., Prenger, R. J., & Gallant, J. L. (2008). Identifying natural images from human brain activity. Nature, 452(7185), 352-355.
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