About vim-2.

Summary of the data

This data set contains BOLD fMRI responses in human subjects viewing a set of natural movies.  The functional data were collected for three subjects, in three sessions over three separate days for each subject.  Details of the experiments are described in the original publication about this data:

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.

Format of the data

The response from each subject is provided in a separate MatLab file, and all Stimuli are provided in a single MatLab file.  These files are stored in Matlab version 7.3 format, which is hf5 format compatible and can be read directly into numpy/python using the PyTables library.  Anatomy information for each subject is provided in a fMRI image file in Nifti (.nii) format.  Details about the data files are given in document crcns-vim-2-data-description.pdf.  Total size (compressed) of the data is about 13 GB. 

Conditions for usage of this data in publications

If you publish any work using the data, please cite the publication above and also cite the data set in the following recommended format:

Shinji Nishimoto, An T. Vu, Thomas Naselaris, Yuval Benjamini, Bin Yu, Jack L. Gallant (2014): Gallant Lab Natural Movie 4T fMRI Data. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K00Z715X

The above citation uses a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which is assigned to the data set.  The DOI was created using DataCite (www.datacite.org) and the California Digital Library, "EZID" system (ezid.cdlib.org).

How to download the data

Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/vim-2
A CRCNS.org account is required. See the download link for more instructions.

Getting help using the data

If you have questions about using the data, please post them on the forum for using data sets.

Documentation file