Neural Modelling
About the dataset
The Courtois project on Neural Modelling (cneuromod) aims at training artificial neural networks using extensive experimental data on individual human brain activity and behaviour. Six subjects (three women, three men) were scanned weekly for five years (2018-23), with more sporadic scanning sessions still ongoing.
The cneuromod dataset currently features up to 200 hours of functional data per subject, including functional localizers (vision, language, memory, emotion), movies and video game play. So far functional neuroimaging data have been collected with functional magnetic resonance imaging and a variety of sensors (including electrodermal activity and occulometry). A smaller subset of data was collected with electroencephalography.
The cneuromod project is funded by a donation of the Courtois foundation. Courtois NeuroMod data are freely shared with the scientific community to advance research at the interface of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Four subjects have shared their data without any restriction, while access to the full sample follows a registered access model.
An overview of the project is available on the cneuromod website and the technical documentation of the latest release is accessible here.
| PI | Lune Bellec | |
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| Institution | Université de Montréal Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal |
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| Study Website | Neural Modelling | |
| Data Descriptor 1 | Documentation | |
| Data Descriptor 2 | Dataset Gallery | |
| CUBIC Project | open-datasets | |
| DUA | None | |
| License | CC BY-NC-SA, see more here | |
| Sample Size | variable | |
| Number of Sessions | variable | |
| CuBIDS | false | |
| BABS | false | |
| Demographics | sex, age | |
| Average Age (y) | variable | |
| % Female | variable | |
| % Right Handed | 100 | |
| BIDS Dataset 1 |
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/cneuromod
This path contains rawdata for following datasets: • friends • harrypotter • hcptrt • movie10 • shinobi • shinobi_training |
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| BIDS Dataset 2 |
Rawdata for the floc dataset
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/floc
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| BIDS Dataset 3 |
Rawdata for the mario dataset
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/mario
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| BIDS Dataset 4 |
Rawdata for the retinotopy dataset
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/retinotopy
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| BIDS Dataset 5 |
Rawdata for the things dataset
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/things
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| Available preprocessed data | For the following datasets: • friends • harrypotter • hcptrt • movie10 • shinobi |
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| sMRIPrep v20.2.1 |
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/cneuromod.processed/smriprep
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| fMRIprep v20.2.3 |
/cbica/projects/open-datasets/datasets/cneuromod/cneuromod.processed/fmriprep
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Funding
The Courtois NeuroMod project was made possible by a donation from the Courtois foundation. These funds are administered by the Fondation Institut Gériatrie Montréal (FIGM) at Centre de Recherche de l’institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, part of CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal, as well as University of Montreal. The team has grown to include individuals from various institutions, and an up-to-date list of contributors can be found in the documentation.
Citations
Julie Boyle, Basile Pinsard, Valentina Borghesani, Francois Paugam, Elizabeth DuPre, and Lune Bellec. The courtois neuromod project: quality assessment of the initial data release (2020). In 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, pages 2023–1602, 2023.
St-Laurent, M., Pinsard, B., Contier, O., Seeliger, K., Borghesani, V., Boyle, J., … & Hebart, M. (2023). cneuromod-things: a large-scale fMRI dataset for task-and data-driven assessment of object representation and visual memory recognition in the human brain. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5424-5424.