A multimodal MRI dataset of professional chess players Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC),West China Hospital of Sichuan University

Summary: Chess is a good model to study high-level human brain functions (e.g., spatial cognition, memory, planning, leaning and problem solving). Recent studies have demonstrated that non-invasive MRI techniques are valuable for researchers to investigate the underlying neural mechanism of chess. For professional chess players (e.g., chess grand masters and masters or GM/Ms), what are the structural and functional alterations due to longtime professional practice, and how these alterations relate to their behavior are largely veiled. Here, we report a multimodal MRI dataset of 29 professional Chinese chess players, most of which are GM/Ms, and 29 age and sexually well-matched novices. We hope that the public availability of this dataset would provide researchers new materials to further explore high-level functions of human brains.

This dataset includes:

• Resting state fMRI scan (TR=2s,200 volumes).
• MPRAGE anatomical scan (defaced, 1mm isotropic).
• Diffusion tensor imaging scan (20 gradients, 2 averages).
• Demographic and game related information for Chess Players.
• Demographic and game related information for Controls.

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Creative Commons License: Attribution - Non-Commercial

 

Funding
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 81030027, 81401477, 81227002 and 81220108013), National Key Technologies R&D Program (Program No. 2012BAI01B03) and Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT, Grant No.IRT1272) of China.

 

Data Release Table

rawData.chess.LiteNIFTI	rawData.control.LiteNIFTI	qaReports
QA Extras rfMRI Chess 0028197-0028204	QA Extras rfMRI Chess 0028205-0028212	QA Extras rfMRI Chess 0028213-0028220	QA Extras rfMRI Chess 0028221-0028225
QA Extras rfMRI Control 0028297-0028304	QA Extras rfMRI Control 0028305-0028312	QA Extras rfMRI Control 0028313-0028320	QA Extras rfMRI Control 0028321-0028325
QA Extras MPRAGE Chess 0028197-0028206	QA Extras MPRAGE Chess 0028207-0028216	QA Extras MPRAGE Chess 0028217-0028225
QA Extras MPRAGE Control 0028297-0028306	QA Extras MPRAGE Control 0028307-0028316	QA Extras MPRAGE Control 0028317-0028325
QA Extras DTI Chess 0028197-0028206	QA Extras DTI Chess 0028207-0028216	QA Extras DTI Chess 0028217-0028225
QA Extras DTI Control 0028297-0028306	QA Extras DTI Control 0028307-0028316	QA Extras DTI Control 0028317-0028325

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