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Social Reward Across the Lifespan Multi-echo fMRI (ds005123)

Social Reward and Nonsocial Reward Processing Across the Adult Lifespan: An Interim Multi-echo fMRI and Diffusion Dataset

Multi-echo task fMRI, multi-shell diffusion MRI, T1-weighted and FLAIR brain MRI from adults aged 21 to 80 playing social and monetary reward games, the interim release of an NIA-funded study of social reward and aging.

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Overview

This OpenNeuro dataset is the interim release of a five-year Temple University study (2021 to 2026), funded by the National Institute on Aging, that asks how brain responses to social and monetary rewards change across adulthood and whether they relate to the risk of financial exploitation in older age. Adults from the Philadelphia area played four reward and decision games in the scanner. Snapshot 1.0.0 (May 2024) was titled a preliminary release; all versions share accession ds005123, the current one is 1.1.3, and the data are under a CC0 waiver. More participants are planned for a later release.

Composition

The release holds 114 community adults aged 21 to 80 (70 female, 40 male, 4 other or non-binary; mean age 42.8). Everyone has a T1-weighted scan; 109 have a FLAIR scan, 108 have diffusion MRI and 113 have BOLD runs. The tasks are a card-guessing game whose gains and losses are shared with a friend, a stranger or a computer, a Social Doors task with separate social-feedback and monetary runs, a trust game with the same three partner types, and an ultimatum game with stranger and computer proposers. Task order was counterbalanced, and most people have two runs of each game.

Acquisition

All scans come from one Siemens Prisma 3T with a 20-channel head coil. Functional runs use multiband (factor 3) EPI with four echoes (13.8 to 67.0 ms), TR 1.615 s and 2.7 mm voxels; magnitude and phase images and single-band references are included. Diffusion MRI is a multi-shell sequence with 145 weighted volumes up to b = 5000 s/mm2 and 2 mm voxels, with reversed phase-encoding field maps. The 1 mm MPRAGE and 3 mm axial FLAIR are defaced. A B0 field map is included for the functional runs.

Annotations

There are no image annotations. Events files give onsets, durations, trial types and response times for each run, and the participants file lists age, sex, race, ethnicity, BMI and handedness.

Known limitations

  • The first 47 participants were scanned with a 20 degree flip angle and later ones with 50 degrees; the paper reports higher temporal SNR at the larger angle.
  • Some diffusion and FLAIR scans and some task runs are missing.
  • Single site, cross-sectional, and the release is interim, so counts will change in later versions.

Cohort

Aggregate numbers from the sources below. Bars are relative to the 114 subjects.

Sex

  • Female 70 61%
  • Male 40 35%
  • Other 4 4%

Table 1 in Smith et al. 2024, Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset, Data in Brief

Modality

  • MRI 114 100%

sub-* folders in File listing and JSON sidecars of the ds005123 BIDS repository (CC0), NIfTI files counted per subject folder, sidecar fields Manufacturer, ManufacturersModelName and MagneticFieldStrength

Scanner vendor

  • Siemens Healthineers 114 100%

Section 4.2.5 in Smith et al. 2024, Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset, Data in Brief

Field strength

  • 3 T 114 100%

Section 4.2.5 in Smith et al. 2024, Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset, Data in Brief

Age

mean 42.8 ± 17.1, range 21 to 80

0
10
20
30
35
20-2930-3940-4950-5960-6970-7980-89

age in participants.tsv of the ds005123 BIDS repository (CC0), columns age and sex; Section 4.1 in Smith et al. 2024, Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset, Data in Brief

Contrast / sequence

Groups can overlap

  • T1-weighted 114 100%
  • BOLD fMRI 113 99%
  • FLAIR 109 96%
  • Diffusion-weighted 108 95%

anat/*_T1w.nii.gz, anat/*_FLAIR.nii.gz, dwi/*_dwi.nii.gz, func/*_bold.nii.gz in File listing and JSON sidecars of the ds005123 BIDS repository (CC0), NIfTI files counted per subject folder, sidecar fields Manufacturer, ManufacturersModelName and MagneticFieldStrength

Country

  • United States 114 100%

Specifications table in Smith et al. 2024, Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset, Data in Brief

Contrast combinations

How many subjects have exactly each set of contrasts.

T1wFLAIRdwiboldSubjects with exactly this set
108
4
1
1

anat dwi and func NIfTI files in File listing and JSON sidecars of the ds005123 BIDS repository (CC0), NIfTI files counted per subject folder, sidecar fields Manufacturer, ManufacturersModelName and MagneticFieldStrength

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 1.1.3 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, Sharp CJ, Dachs A, Wyngaarden J, Sazhin D, Yang Y, Kos M, Tropea T, Kohli I, Clithero JA, Olson I, Giovannetti T, Fareri D, Jarcho JM. Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset. Data in Brief 56, 110810 (2024). doi:10.1016/j.dib.2024.110810

@article{smith2024,
  title={Social reward and nonsocial reward processing across the adult lifespan: An interim multi-echo fMRI and diffusion dataset},
  author={Smith, David V. and Sharp, Cooper J. and Dachs, Abraham and Wyngaarden, James and Sazhin, Daniel and Yang, Yi and Kos, Melanie and Tropea, Tia and Kohli, Ishika and Clithero, John A. and Olson, Ingrid and Giovannetti, Tania and Fareri, Dominic and Jarcho, Johanna M.},
  journal={Data in Brief},
  volume={56},
  pages={110810},
  year={2024},
  doi={10.1016/j.dib.2024.110810}
}

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.