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MRI brain scans (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt University neuroscientist James R. Booth is publicly releasing two large scale neuroimaging datasets on reading and language development to support other researchers across the world who are working to understand how academic skills develop in childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been able to follow our curiosity and answer some really interesting questions with these datasets,\u201d said Booth, the Patricia and Rhodes Hart Professor of Educational Neuroscience at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. \u201cMy hope is that others will be able to reproduce some of our core findings and extend them in interesting new directions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Available in the digital repository OpenNeuro, together the datasets include more than 3,000 magnetic resonance imaging scans that explore brain structure and function in school-age children.<\/p>\n

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James R. Booth (Vanderbilt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cMy hope is that others will be able to reproduce some of our core findings and extend them in interesting new directions.\u201d
\u2013James R. Booth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Using the data<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Booth and his colleagues have used the dataset on \u201cCross-Sectional Multidomain Lexical Processing,\u201d\u00a0which uses rhyming, spelling and meaning tasks to understand how children process features of both written and spoken language, to provide a deeper understanding of domain specific and domain general processes in the brain, and how this is related to academic skill.<\/p>\n

Through making these data publicly available, other researchers can extend the body of foundational research stemming from this dataset, which includes several tasks in both the visual and auditory modalities. For example, researchers could use\u00a0 network approaches to understand whether brain dynamics differ depending on task demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cLongitudinal Brain Correlates of Multisensory Lexical Processing in Children\u201d expands upon the research conducted in the first dataset, by exploring rhyming in audio-visual contexts (see Figure 1). This project focused on one of the core skills related to reading skill and dyslexia, the ability to map between auditory and visual modalities. This dataset also has a longitudinal component which allows researchers to explore how an individual\u2019s reading develops across childhood.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Overview of study design. Children performed rhyming judgments when in the MRI. The researchers collected structural, functional and diffusion neuroimaging data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although several papers have been published on the data, none of these studies have examined changes in brain activation over time, so the release of this data\u00a0 provides an exciting opportunity for future investigation. Future studies could also examine whether these trajectories can be predicted in advance, which is useful for early identification and intervention.<\/p>\n

Comparing brain function to academic skills<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In addition to the more than 3,000 brain scans, both datasets include scores from an extensive number of standardized tests to allow researchers to compare brain function to other academically relevant skills. Testing scores, behavioral performance on the imaging tasks, demographics and brain data can be integrated to holistically explore how children develop. For example, it is not known how the neural basis of reading skill varies as a function of cognitive skills indexed by intelligence measures. In addition, it is not known how socio-economic status relates to functional brain changes over time in the reading network.<\/p>\n

Publications on the data<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Marisa Lytle (Vanderbilt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe hope to continue to do our part in giving back to the scientific community and making research practices more open and transparent.\u201d
\u2013Marisa Lytle<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Detailed descriptors of these datasets have been recently published in Data in Brief (Multidomain) and Scientific Data (Multisensory) to facilitate future reuse of the data. Both the datasets and their descriptors are open access, meaning that anyone with internet access can read and utilize these extensive datasets.<\/p>\n

Booth\u2019s lab has also released additional resources on how to share neuroimaging data.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope to continue to do our part in giving back to the scientific community and making research practices more open and transparent,\u201d said Marisa Lytle, research assistant\u00a0 in Booth\u2019s Brain Development Lab and coordinator for the data sharing project. \u201cBy providing the knowledge of how to share data in addition to the datasets themselves, we hope that other researchers will feel empowered to share their own data with the research community and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous dataset release<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In March 2019, Booth released the largest known developmental neuroimaging dataset on arithmetic processing, comprised of several hundred brain scans his lab conducted on school-age children performing math problems. This data is also freely available.<\/p>\n

Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funded the initial research for these two datasets (R01-HD042049) as well as the sharing of the data (R03-HD093547).<\/p>\n

Learn More<\/h3>\n

Watch a video of James R. Booth discussing his research<\/p>\n

Visit the website for the Brain Development Lab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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