{"id":235830,"date":"2026-04-24T07:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/large-brain-mapping-dataset-expands-with-new-set-of-cognitive-tasks"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:11:36","slug":"large-brain-mapping-dataset-expands-with-new-set-of-cognitive-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/large-brain-mapping-dataset-expands-with-new-set-of-cognitive-tasks","title":{"rendered":"Large brain mapping dataset expands with new set of cognitive tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-brain-mapping-dataset-expands-with-new-set-of-cognitive-tasks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping datasets available today. The dataset, which is openly accessible through EBRAINS, is described in a new publication in Nature <em>Scientific Data<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The new release expands the dataset with 18 tasks collected from 11 participants under tightly controlled, standardised conditions \u2013 bringing many of them close to 40 hours of scanned data each.<\/p>\n<p>The IBC project launched in 2014 and was funded by the Human Brain Project. It aims to map how individual brains respond across a wide range of cognitive functions. By repeatedly scanning the same participants with diverse tasks \u2013 from mathematics and spatial navigation to emotion recognition, reward processing, and working memory \u2013 the team is building an exceptionally rich resource for studying individual variability in brain organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping datasets available today. The dataset, which is openly accessible through EBRAINS, is described in a new publication in Nature Scientific Data. The new release [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}