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ArticleScientific data2025

The "Podcast" ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural language comprehension.

Zaid Zada, Samuel A Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang, Liat Hasenfratz, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan and 6 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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16 authors.

Zaid ZadaPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA. zzada@princeton.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3096-0059
Samuel A NastasePrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7013-5275
Bobbi AubreyPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.
Itamar JalonPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.
Sebastian MichelmannPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.
Haocheng WangPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.
Liat HasenfratzPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.
Werner DoyleGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.
Daniel FriedmanGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.
Patricia DuganGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.
Lucia MelloniGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.
Sasha DevoreGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.
Adeen FlinkerGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1247-1283
Orrin DevinskyGrossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, 10016, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0044-4632
Ariel GoldsteinDepartment of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Business School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 9190501, Israel.
Uri HassonPrinceton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3599-7168

Funding

Speaker-listener coupling: a novel neural approach for assessing communicationDP1HD091948 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI HASSON, URI · 2016 to 2021
$5.6M
Spatiotemporal Organization of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus During Speech Production - Resubmission - 1R01NS109367 · NINDS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI FLINKER, ADEEN · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
CRCNS: Building and testing computational models of the neural basis of natural communicationR01DC022534 · NIDCD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Uri Hasson · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NICHD NIH HHS DP1 HD091948NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC022534NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS109367U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) DP1HD091948U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01NS109367
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Naturalistic electrocorticography (ECoG) data are a rare but essential resource for studying the brain's linguistic capabilities. ECoG offers high temporal resolution suitable for investigating processes at multiple temporal timescales and frequency bands. It also provides broad spatial coverage, often along critical language areas. Here, we share a dataset of nine ECoG participants with 1,330 electrodes listening to a 30-minute audio podcast. The richness of this naturalistic stimulus can be used for various research questions, from auditory perception to narrative integration. In addition to the neural data, we extracted linguistic features of the stimulus ranging from phonetic information to large language model word embeddings. We use these linguistic features in encoding models that relate stimulus properties to neural activity. Finally, we provide detailed tutorials for preprocessing raw data, extracting stimulus features, and running encoding analyses that can serve as a pedagogical resource or a springboard for new research.

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BrainComprehensionElectrocorticographyLanguageAuditory PerceptionHumans

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PMID40610484
PMCPMC12226714

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