Open data

The following fMRI datasets are publicly available in BIDS format via OpenNeuro and/or DataLad. Please email me if you have questions about the data.


OpenNeuro ds002345 website OpenNeuro DataLad DOI

“Narratives” collection comprising fMRI data acquired over the course of seven years for over 300 participants listening to naturalistic spoken story stimuli.

Nastase, S. A., Liu, Y.-F., Hillman, H., Zadbood, A., Hasenfratz, L., Keshavarzian, N., Chen, J., Honey, C. J., Yeshurun, Y., Regev, M., Nguyen, M., Chang, C. H. C., Baldassano, C., Lositsky, O., Simony, E., Chow, M. A., Leong, Y. C., Brooks, P. P., Micciche, E., Choe, G., Goldstein, A., Vanderwal, T., Halchenko, Y. O., Norman, K. A., & Hasson, U. (2021). The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension. Scientific Data, 8, 250. DOI PDF


OpenNeuro ds000233 website OpenNeuro DataLad DOI

fMRI data for 12 participants viewing naturalistic clips of behaving animals while attending to either animal behavior or taxonomy.

Nastase, S. A., Halchenko, Y. O., Connolly, A. C., Gobbini, M. I., & Haxby, J. V. (2018). Neural responses to naturalistic clips of behaving animals in two different task contexts. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 316. DOI PDF