Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Publication Title
Scientific Data
Department
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Additional Department
Department of Computer Science
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.
DOI
10.1038/s41597-021-01033-3
Original Citation
Nastase, S.A., Liu, YF., Hillman, H. et al. The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension. Sci Data 8, 250 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01033-3
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Nastase, Samuel A.; Liu, Yun Fei; Hillman, Hanna; Zadbood, Asieh; Hasenfratz, Liat; Keshavarzian, Neggin; Chen, Janice; Honey, Christopher J.; Yeshurun, Yaara; Regev, Mor; Nguyen, Mai; Chang, Claire H.C.; Baldassano, Christopher; Lositsky, Olga; Simony, Erez; Chow, Michael A.; Leong, Yuan Chang; Brooks, Paula P.; Micciche, Emily; and Choe, Gina, "The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension" (2021). Dartmouth Scholarship. 4126.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/4126