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ArticleeLife2023

THINGS-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for investigating object representations in human brain and behavior.

Martin N Hebart, Oliver Contier, Lina Teichmann, Adam H Rockter, Charles Y Zheng, Alexis Kidder, Anna Corriveau, Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Chris I Baker

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Martin N Hebart *Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7257-428X
Oliver Contier *Vision and Computational Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2983-4709
Lina Teichmann *Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-5686
Adam H RockterLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2446-717X
Charles Y ZhengMachine Learning Core, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Alexis KidderLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Anna CorriveauLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Maryam Vaziri-PashkamLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1830-2501
Chris I BakerLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6861-8964

Funding

Object, face, body and scene representations in the human brainZIAMH002909 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI BAKER, CHRIS · 2009 to 2025
$25.5M
Machine Learning TeamZICMH002968 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI PEREIRA, FRANCISCO · 2018 to 2025
$13.9M
Object, face and body representations in the human brainZ01MH002909 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI BAKER, CHRISTOPHER · 2008 to 2008
$1.1M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 MH002909Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002909Intramural NIH HHS ZIC MH002968NIH HHS ZIA-MH-002909NIH HHS ZIC-MH002968
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding object representations requires a broad, comprehensive sampling of the objects in our visual world with dense measurements of brain activity and behavior. Here, we present THINGS-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale neuroimaging and behavioral datasets in humans, comprising densely sampled functional MRI and magnetoencephalographic recordings, as well as 4.70 million similarity judgments in response to thousands of photographic images for up to 1,854 object concepts. THINGS-data is unique in its breadth of richly annotated objects, allowing for testing countless hypotheses at scale while assessing the reproducibility of previous findings. Beyond the unique insights promised by each individual dataset, the multimodality of THINGS-data allows combining datasets for a much broader view into object processing than previously possible. Our analyses demonstrate the high quality of the datasets and provide five examples of hypothesis-driven and data-driven applications. THINGS-data constitutes the core public release of the THINGS initiative (https://things-initiative.org) for bridging the gap between disciplines and the advancement of cognitive neuroscience.

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BrainPattern Recognition, VisualBrain MappingHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMagnetoencephalographyReproducibility of ResultsbehaviorfMRIhumanMEGneuroscienceobjectsresearch datavision

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PMID36847339
PMCPMC10038662

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