About vim-3

Summary of the data

The data set has functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements of the magnitude of evoked activity in the visual areas V1, V2, and V3 in seven humans in response to image patches, drawn from above or below the centre of gaze of an observer navigating a natural environment.  The experiments and data are described in the following paper:

Mannion DJ. (2015) Sensitivity to the visual field origin of natural image patches in human low-level visual cortex. PeerJ 3:e1038 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1038

Format of the data

The response from each subject is provided in a separate directory and includes the 10 fMRI recordings, in NIFTI format, in addition to the sequence and behavioural task information, in NumPy format.  Details about the data files are given in document crcns_vim-3-data_description.pdf.  Total size (compressed) of the data is about 2.2 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:

Damien J. Mannion, (2015): fMRI responses of human visual cortex (v1, v2, v3) to natural image patches obtained from above and below the centre of gaze of an observer freely-navigating an outdoor environment. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K0JS9NC2

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-3
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