Human Voice Areas (ds000158)
The human Voice Areas: spatial organisation and inter-individual variability in temporal and extra-temporal cortices
Brain fMRI of healthy young adults listening to vocal and non-vocal sounds, pooled to map the voice-sensitive areas of auditory cortex and how much they vary between people. 217 people from Glasgow, each with one anatomical scan and one 10-minute run, in BIDS on OpenNeuro.
Overview
This dataset holds the scans behind the "voice localizer", a short fMRI protocol from the Voice Neurocognition Laboratory at the University of Glasgow that finds the voice-sensitive temporal voice areas of auditory cortex in a single subject. Pernet, Belin and colleagues pooled the localizer runs of many studies to map where these areas lie and how much their position varies between people (NeuroImage 2015). The data were first deposited on Edinburgh DataShare in 2015 under CC BY 4.0 and later converted to BIDS on OpenfMRI and OpenNeuro, where they are released under the PDDL.
Composition
The OpenNeuro snapshot 1.0.0 contains 217 subjects with one T1-weighted scan and one BOLD run each, plus an events file, the sound stimuli and the original analysis workflow. The paper describes 218 healthy adult volunteers (117 male, mean age 24.1, SD 7.0), recruited from the student population of Glasgow and screened by interview and questionnaire for physical and mental health conditions. There is no participants table, so sex and age per subject are not released.
Acquisition
All data come from one 3 T Siemens Tim Trio at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Glasgow. The functional run is a single-shot gradient-echo EPI with TR 2 s, TE 30 ms, 32 slices of 3 x 3 x 3.3 mm and 310 volumes. During the run of 10 minutes and 20 seconds, subjects listened with eyes closed to forty 8 s blocks of vocal or non-vocal sounds, separated by silence. The anatomical scan is a 1 mm isotropic 3D T1-weighted image.
Annotations
There are no image annotations. The events file gives the onset, duration and category (vocal or non-vocal) of each block, and the stimulus file behind it.
Known limitations
- The OpenNeuro copy has one subject fewer than the paper and the DataShare archives. Its CHANGES file notes that subject numbers were shifted down by one during BIDS conversion.
- The OpenNeuro curators note that defacing was aggressive in some T1-weighted scans and removed small parts of brain.
- Several T1-weighted scans differ in matrix size or voxel size, and a few BOLD runs have 315 instead of 310 volumes.
- Stimulus order was fixed for all subjects and listening was passive, so attention and order effects cannot be separated.
Cohort
Aggregate numbers from the sources below. Bars are relative to the 217 subjects.
Sex
- Male 117 100%
Covers 117 of 217 subjects.
Methods: Subjects in Pernet et al. 2015, The human voice areas, NeuroImage
Age
mean 24.1 ± 7
No age bins reported.
Methods: Subjects in Pernet et al. 2015, The human voice areas, NeuroImage
Contrast / sequence
Groups can overlap
- T1-weighted 217 100%
- BOLD fMRI 217 100%
From File tree of ds000158 (PDDL), NIfTI files counted per subject folder
Contrast combinations
How many subjects have exactly each set of contrasts.
| T1w | bold | Subjects with exactly this set |
|---|---|---|
217 |
From File tree of ds000158 (PDDL), NIfTI files counted per subject folder
License and access
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Use, share and adapt the data for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you credit the creators.
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What you can do
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
What you can share
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
What you must do
- Yes
- Share alike No
- No
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- Delete after use No
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Citation
Pernet CR, McAleer P, Latinus M, Gorgolewski KJ, Charest I, Bestelmeyer PEG, Watson RH, Fleming D, Crabbe F, Valdes-Sosa M, Belin P. The human voice areas: spatial organization and inter-individual variability in temporal and extra-temporal cortices. NeuroImage 119:164-174 (2015). doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.050
Sources
Every number on this page comes from one of these documents. Each chart names the table or page it is taken from. The raw numbers are in stats.csv.