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Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension

View ORCID ProfileSamuel A. Nastase, View ORCID ProfileYun-Fei Liu, View ORCID ProfileHanna Hillman, View ORCID ProfileAsieh Zadbood, View ORCID ProfileLiat Hasenfratz, View ORCID ProfileNeggin Keshavarzian, View ORCID ProfileJanice Chen, View ORCID ProfileChristopher J. Honey, View ORCID ProfileYaara Yeshurun, View ORCID ProfileMor Regev, Mai Nguyen, View ORCID ProfileClaire H. C. Chang, View ORCID ProfileChristopher Baldassano, View ORCID ProfileOlga Lositsky, Erez Simony, Michael A. Chow, View ORCID ProfileYuan Chang Leong, View ORCID ProfilePaula P. Brooks, Emily Micciche, Gina Choe, Ariel Goldstein, View ORCID ProfileTamara Vanderwal, View ORCID ProfileYaroslav O. Halchenko, View ORCID ProfileKenneth A. Norman, View ORCID ProfileUri Hasson
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.23.424091
Samuel A. Nastase
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Yun-Fei Liu
2Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Hanna Hillman
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Asieh Zadbood
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Liat Hasenfratz
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Neggin Keshavarzian
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Janice Chen
2Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Christopher J. Honey
2Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Yaara Yeshurun
3School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Mor Regev
4Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Mai Nguyen
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Claire H. C. Chang
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Christopher Baldassano
5Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Olga Lositsky
6Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Erez Simony
7Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
8Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Michael A. Chow
9DataCamp, Inc., New York, NY, USA
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Yuan Chang Leong
10Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Paula P. Brooks
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Emily Micciche
11Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Gina Choe
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Ariel Goldstein
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Tamara Vanderwal
12Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Yaroslav O. Halchenko
13Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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Kenneth A. Norman
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Uri Hasson
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Abstract

The “Narratives” collection aggregates a variety of functional MRI datasets collected while human subjects listened to naturalistic spoken stories. The current release includes 345 subjects, 891 functional scans, and 27 diverse stories of varying duration totaling ~4.6 hours of unique stimuli (~43,000 words). This data collection is well-suited for naturalistic neuroimaging analysis, and is intended to serve as a benchmark for models of language and narrative comprehension. We provide standardized MRI data accompanied by rich metadata, preprocessed versions of the data ready for immediate use, and the spoken story stimuli with time-stamped phoneme- and word-level transcripts. All code and data are publicly available with full provenance in keeping with current best practices in transparent and reproducible neuroimaging.

Competing Interest Statement

The authors have declared no competing interest.

Footnotes

  • https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds002345

  • http://datasets.datalad.org/?dir=/labs/hasson/narratives

  • https://github.com/snastase/narratives

  • https://snastase.github.io/datasets/ds002345

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Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension
Samuel A. Nastase, Yun-Fei Liu, Hanna Hillman, Asieh Zadbood, Liat Hasenfratz, Neggin Keshavarzian, Janice Chen, Christopher J. Honey, Yaara Yeshurun, Mor Regev, Mai Nguyen, Claire H. C. Chang, Christopher Baldassano, Olga Lositsky, Erez Simony, Michael A. Chow, Yuan Chang Leong, Paula P. Brooks, Emily Micciche, Gina Choe, Ariel Goldstein, Tamara Vanderwal, Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson
bioRxiv 2020.12.23.424091; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.23.424091
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Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension
Samuel A. Nastase, Yun-Fei Liu, Hanna Hillman, Asieh Zadbood, Liat Hasenfratz, Neggin Keshavarzian, Janice Chen, Christopher J. Honey, Yaara Yeshurun, Mor Regev, Mai Nguyen, Claire H. C. Chang, Christopher Baldassano, Olga Lositsky, Erez Simony, Michael A. Chow, Yuan Chang Leong, Paula P. Brooks, Emily Micciche, Gina Choe, Ariel Goldstein, Tamara Vanderwal, Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson
bioRxiv 2020.12.23.424091; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.23.424091

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