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Social and Nonsocial Reward fMRI (ds004920)

An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults

Task fMRI and T1-weighted MRI from young adults playing four social and monetary reward games, collected to relate brain reward responses to trait reward sensitivity, substance use and mood symptoms. Twenty questionnaires, BIDS, CC0.

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Overview

This OpenNeuro dataset comes from a Temple University project, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, on whether brain responses to social and monetary rewards relate to trait reward sensitivity, substance use and mood symptoms. Young adults filled in a battery of questionnaires and then played four reward games in the scanner. The first snapshot was posted in January 2024 and the current one is 1.1.1; a data article in Data in Brief describes it. It is released under a CC0 waiver.

Composition

The release holds 59 young adults (45 female, 14 male) aged 18 to 26, recruited from the university participant pool and the surrounding community. Each person has one T1-weighted scan and BOLD runs from up to four tasks: an Ultimatum and Dictator Game task (two runs), a card-guessing task in which wins and losses were shared with a friend, a stranger or a computer (two runs), a Social Doors task with separate monetary and social feedback runs, and a monetary incentive delay task. Not every task is complete for everyone: the shared-reward task is present for 52 people and the incentive delay task for 56. The phenotype folder holds 20 questionnaires on reward sensitivity, substance use, mood, empathy, aggression and childhood adversity.

Acquisition

All scans were acquired on one Siemens Prisma 3T with a 20-channel head coil at Temple University in Philadelphia. Functional runs use multiband (factor 2) EPI with TR 1.75 s, TE 29 ms and 3 mm isotropic voxels, each with a single-band reference image. The structural scan is a 1 mm isotropic MPRAGE, defaced before release. A B0 field map (magnitude and phase difference) is included for 58 people.

Annotations

There are no image annotations. Events files give stimulus onsets, durations, trial types and response times for every task run. The participants file lists age, gender, race, BMI, handedness, drug and breathalyzer screens and medication use.

Known limitations

  • Data collection paused for 15 months during the COVID-19 pandemic after 10 scans, and planned diagnostic interviews on substance use and mood disorders were dropped, so there are no clinical diagnoses.
  • The closeness rating for the stranger partner is missing for 23 of the 59 participants.
  • Six participants lack three follow-up questionnaires (childhood trauma, childhood unpredictability and social experience).
  • The sample is small and mostly female, from a single site.

Cohort

Aggregate numbers from the sources below. Bars are relative to the 59 subjects.

Sex

  • Female 45 76%
  • Male 14 24%

Section 4.1 in Smith et al. 2024, An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults, Data in Brief

Modality

  • MRI 59 100%

sub-* folders in File listing and JSON sidecars of the ds004920 BIDS repository (CC0), NIfTI files counted per subject folder, sidecar fields Manufacturer, ManufacturersModelName, MagneticFieldStrength and InstitutionAddress

Scanner vendor

  • Siemens Healthineers 59 100%

Section 4.4 in Smith et al. 2024, An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults, Data in Brief

Field strength

  • 3 T 59 100%

Section 4.4 in Smith et al. 2024, An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults, Data in Brief

Age

mean 20.9 ± 1.8, range 18.2 to 26.3

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10
20
30
39
18-1920-29

age in participants.tsv of the ds004920 BIDS repository (CC0), column age; Section 4.1 in Smith et al. 2024, An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults, Data in Brief

Contrast / sequence

Groups can overlap

  • T1-weighted 59 100%
  • BOLD fMRI 59 100%

anat/*_T1w.nii.gz, func/*_bold.nii.gz in File listing and JSON sidecars of the ds004920 BIDS repository (CC0), NIfTI files counted per subject folder, sidecar fields Manufacturer, ManufacturersModelName, MagneticFieldStrength and InstitutionAddress

Country

  • United States 59 100%

Specifications table in Smith et al. 2024, An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults, Data in Brief

Contrast combinations

How many subjects have exactly each set of contrasts.

T1wboldSubjects with exactly this set
59

anat and func NIfTI files in File listing and JSON sidecars of the ds004920 BIDS repository (CC0), NIfTI files counted per subject folder, sidecar fields Manufacturer, ManufacturersModelName, MagneticFieldStrength and InstitutionAddress

License and access

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Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal

Public domain dedication. Do anything with the data, including commercial use, without asking and without having to give credit.

dataset_description.json of snapshot 1.1.1 states "License" CC0.

Original license text Version read: 1.0 Checked 2026-10-07

What you can do

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes

What you can share

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes

What you must do

  • No
  • Share alike No
  • No
  • No
  • Manuscript review No
  • Release code No
  • Return results No
  • Delete after use No

Limits

  • No
  • Location limits No

Citation

Smith DV, Wyngaarden J, Sharp CJ, Sazhin D, Zaff O, Fareri D, Jarcho J. An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults. Data in Brief 53, 110197 (2024). doi:10.1016/j.dib.2024.110197

@article{smith2024,
  title={An fMRI dataset of social and nonsocial reward processing in young adults},
  author={Smith, David V. and Wyngaarden, James and Sharp, Cooper J. and Sazhin, Daniel and Zaff, Ori and Fareri, Dominic and Jarcho, Johanna},
  journal={Data in Brief},
  volume={53},
  pages={110197},
  year={2024},
  doi={10.1016/j.dib.2024.110197}
}

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.