on004078
NEMAR copy of ds004078

A synchronized multimodal neuroimaging dataset to study brain language processing

SMN4Lang is a synchronized multimodal neuroimaging dataset for studying brain language processing. It contains fMRI and MEG recordings from the same 12 participants listening to about 6 hours of naturalistic Mandarin Chinese stories. It also includes structural T1/T2, diffusion MRI, resting-state fMRI, and linguistic annotations of the stimuli such as word frequencies, part-of-speech tags, syntactic trees, time-aligned characters and words, and word embeddings.

ANAT DWI FUNC MEG
Issues GitHub OpenNeuro ds004078

Download this dataset

dataset 1390.0 GB exceeds 100.0 GB archive limit; use direct download. Use one of the streaming methods below — all resumable. Full download guide →

  1. NEMAR CLI recommended

    Pulls the pinned version + annexed data and resumes cleanly. Install nemar-cli → 

    nemar dataset download on004078
  2. DataLad

    Clone the dataset repo and fetch file content on demand. Docs → 

    datalad clone https://github.com/nemarDatasets/on004078 on004078
cd on004078 && datalad get .
  3. git-annex

    Plain git + git-annex against the dataset repo. Docs → 

    git clone https://github.com/nemarDatasets/on004078 on004078
cd on004078 && git annex get .
  4. Direct files (wget / curl / rclone)

    Every file with a stable, range-resumable URL from the manifest. Needs curl, jq, wget (or rclone/aria2c). Docs → 

    curl -s https://data.nemar.org/on004078/v1.0.0/manifest.json | jq -r '.[].bytes_url' > urls.txt
wget -xc -i urls.txt

Compute on this dataset

Two routes today, with a third (in-browser one-click submission) landing soon.

  1. NeuroScience Gateway (NSG) portal.

    NSG runs EEGLAB / Brainstorm / MNE pipelines on supercomputing time donated by SDSC. Create an account, point a job at this dataset's S3 prefix (s3://nemar/on004078), and submit.
    nsgportal.org →

  2. Local processing with nemar-cli.

    Pull the dataset to your machine and run any toolbox locally. Honors the published version pinning. 

    npm install -g nemar-cli
nemar dataset clone on004078
cd on004078 && nemar dataset get
  3. Just the files.

    rclone, aria2c, or any HTTPS client works against data.nemar.org/on004078/ — the manifest carries presigned S3 URLs.

Direct compute access is coming soon. One-click NSG submission from this page is scoped for a follow-up phase. Tracked on nemarOrg/website#6.

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    How to use the data (for agentic research) license, citation, download commands

    What it is

    Modalities
    ANAT, DWI, FUNC, MEG
    Participants
    12
    Size
    1.36 TB
    Tasks
    RDR, rest

    License and terms

    License
    CC0
    Recommended citation
    Wang, S., Zhang, X., Zhang, J., & Zong, C. (2026). A synchronized multimodal neuroimaging dataset to study brain language processing (Version v1.0.0) [Data set]. NEMAR. https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.on004078

    Where the bytes are

    Latest version (always current)
    https://data.nemar.org/on004078/latest/
    This version (v1.0.0)
    https://data.nemar.org/on004078/v1.0.0/

    How to download

    The dataset
    nemar dataset download on004078 Clones and fetches in one step. Content under stimuli/ and derivatives/ is skipped by default because those trees can be large; add --stimuli --derivatives for the whole thing.
    A subset, one step
    nemar dataset download on004078 --subjects sub-01,02 Also filters by --sessions, --tasks, --runs, --datatypes, --include and --exclude.
    A subset, step 1
    nemar dataset clone on004078 Clones git-annex pointers only; fetches no file content. Creates ./on004078.
    A subset, step 2
    cd on004078 The get command below reads the clone's annex, so it only works from inside the clone.
    A subset, step 3
    nemar dataset get <files> Pulls the files you actually need. Skips stimuli/ and derivatives/ unless the path you ask for is under one of them.
    One small file
    https://data.nemar.org/on004078/v1.0.0/participants.tsv A direct HTTPS fetch works for any single file.

    Assess fit without downloading

    Participants table
    https://data.nemar.org/on004078/v1.0.0/participants.tsv
    Dataset description
    https://data.nemar.org/on004078/v1.0.0/dataset_description.json
    Directory listing
    https://data.nemar.org/on004078/v1.0.0/?format=json
    Catalog record
    https://api.nemar.org/datasets/on004078