{
  "id": 5398502,
  "title": "An adolescent neuroimaging database combining movie-watching, eye-tracking and cognitive tasks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/an-adolescent-neuroimaging-database-combining-movie-watching-eye",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.28.747840v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The article introduces a comprehensive, multimodal neuroimaging database focused on adolescents aged 11-18 years. This dataset is significant as it fills a gap in research, as most existing neuroimaging studies concentrate on adult populations. The database incorporates three key components: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, eye-tracking, and physiological monitoring, all gathered during participants' naturalistic movie-watching sessions.\n\nThe data, adhering to the Biomedical Data Structure (BIDS) standards, is openly accessible, ensuring reproducibility in scientific research. Technical validation of the dataset shows high-quality data with minimal head motion and strong inter-subject neural synchronisation during the movie-watching tasks.\n\nBeyond the scanning session, participants completed remote assessments covering various self-reported developmental and mental health traits. Additionally, cognitive tasks targeting reward-based and social learning were included. This extensive dataset provides a valuable resource for studying the adolescent brain, with particular utility for understanding individual differences in mental health and cognition.",
  "summary": "Adolescence is a critical period of neurodevelopment, yet most neuroimaging datasets focus on adult populations, leaving a gap in our understanding of how the brain processes information during this formative stage. Here we present a multimodal neuroimaging dataset acquired from 41 adolescent participants aged 11-18 years, combining 3T fMRI data with concurrent eye-tracking and physiological…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}