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An open-access multi-site fMRI dataset for investigating conscious visual perception.

Aya Khalaf, David Richter, Yamil Vidal, Urszula Gorska-Klimowska, Rony Hirschhorn, Diptyajit Das, Kyle Sinan Taylan Kahraman, Praveen Sripad, Fatemeh Taheriyan, Liad Mudrik and 6 more

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16 authors.

Aya Khalaf *Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
David Richter *Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3404-8374
Yamil Vidal *Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8011-8030
Urszula Gorska-Klimowska *Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53719, USA.
Rony HirschhornSagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7710-5159
Diptyajit DasNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany.
Kyle Sinan Taylan KahramanNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany.ORCID 0009-0002-9571-5721
Praveen SripadNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6361-2571
Fatemeh TaheriyanNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany.
Liad MudrikSagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Michael PittsPsychology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR, 97202, USA.
Hal BlumenfeldDepartments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Floris P de LangeDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Niccolò BonacchiWilliam James Center for Research (WJCR), ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041, Lisbon, Portugal.
Tanya BrownNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6515-9715
Lucia MelloniNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany. lucia.melloni@ae.mpg.de.

Funding

Templeton World Charity Foundation (Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.) TWCF0389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) dataset collected as part of an adversarial collaboration aimed at arbitrating between the Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNWT) and the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness. Participants (N = 118) were presented with suprathreshold visual stimuli belonging to four different categories (faces, objects, letters, false fonts) with three orientations (front, left, right view), and three durations (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 seconds). Participants were asked to identify infrequent targets that changed in each block, thereby rendering two categories task-relevant and two task-irrelevant. The simplicity of the experimental design and of the task given to the participants ensures that these data are broadly reusable. Besides testing predictions from other theories of consciousness, these data can be used to examine various aspects of visual processing. The anonymized data were converted to Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), and can be easily accessed through a web platform or an API. The dataset contains quality reports, demographics, behavioral performance, and eye-tracking data. We also provide code for preprocessing and analyzing the data.

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ConsciousnessMagnetic Resonance ImagingVisual PerceptionBrainHumans

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PMID42115661
PMCPMC13213011

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