I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at
laion-fmri.hebartlab.com
What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yann Harel, Lune Bellec, et al:
Gamer in the scanner: Event-related analysis of fMRI activity during retro videogame play guided by automated annotations of game content
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
It’s time to start thinking about how to change my MSc data skills assessments for next year. Last year they did 4 output reproductions (write code to make an output given raw data) of increasing complexity. The marking was too much and AI use prevents learning.
psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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