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Sci Data. 2015 Sep 01;2:150044. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.44. eCollection 2015.

A multimodal MRI dataset of professional chess players.

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Kaiming Li, Jing Jiang, Lihua Qiu, Xun Yang, Xiaoqi Huang, Su Lui, Qiyong Gong

Affiliations

  1. Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Departments of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University , Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.
  2. School of Sociality and Psychology, Southwest University for Nationalities , Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.
  3. Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Departments of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University , Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China ; Department of Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University , Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.

PMID: 26346238 PMCID: PMC4556927 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.44

Abstract

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.

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