The following fMRI datasets are available in BIDS format from OpenNeuro.


Shared neural codes for visual and semantic information about familiar others in a common representational space

OpenNeuro | code | paper

Fourteen subjects performed a one-back repetition detection task with personally familiar faces (fellow graduate students) and visually familiarized faces (strangers).

Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Haxby, J.V., Gobbini, M.I. (2021). Shared neural codes for visual and semantic information about familiar others in a common representational space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


The Grand Budapest Hotel

OpenNeuro | DataLad | code | paper

Twenty-five subjects watched the second half of the movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in the scanner.

Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Chauhan, V., Jiahui, G., & Gobbini, M. I. (2020). An fMRI dataset in response to “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, a socially-rich, naturalistic movie. Scientific Data.


Responses to personally familiar and unfamiliar faces

OpenNeuro | DataLad | code | paper

Thirty-three subjects performed an oddball detection task while looking at faces of personally familiar individuals (close friends) and strangers.

Visconti di Oleggio Castello*, M., Halchenko*, Y. O., Guntupalli, J. S., Gors, J. D., & Gobbini, M. I. (2017). The neural representation of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces in the distributed system for face perception. Scientific Reports.