A multimodal MRI dataset of professional chess players

作者：Li, Kaiming; Jiang, Jing; Qiu, Lihua; Yang, Xun; Huang, Xiaoqi; Lui, Su; Gong, Qiyong^*

来源：Scientific Data, 2015, 2(1): 150044.

DOI：10.1038/sdata.2015.44

• LOW-FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION
• FMRI
• AMPLITUDE
• GAME

Chess is a good model to study high-level human brain functions such as spatial cognition, memory, planning, learning and problem solving. Recent studies have demonstrated that non-invasive MRI techniques are valuable for researchers to investigate the underlying neural mechanism of playing chess. For professional chess players (e. g., chess grand masters and masters or GM/Ms), what are the structural and functional alterations due to long-term professional practice, and how these alterations relate to behavior, are largely veiled. Here, we report a multimodal MRI dataset from 29 professional Chinese chess players (most of whom are GM/Ms), and 29 age matched novices. We hope that this dataset will provide researchers with new materials to further explore high-level human brain functions.

• 出版日期2015
• 单位四川大学; 西南民族大学