Chinese Human Connectome Project

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CHCP OverviewThe human behavior and brain are shaped by genetic, environmental and cultural interactions. Recent advances in neuroimaging integrate multimodal imaging data from a large population and start to explore the large-scale structural and functional connectomic architectures of the human brain. One of the major pioneers is the Human Connectome Project (HCP) that developed sophisticated imaging protocols and has built a collection of high-quality multimodal neuroimaging, behavioral and genetic data from US population. A large-scale neuroimaging project parallel to the HCP, but with a focus on the East Asian population, will allow comparisons of brain-behavior associations across different ethnicities and cultures.The Chinese Human Connectome Project (CHCP) is launched in 2017 and led by Professor Jia-Hong GAO at Peking University, Beijing, China. CHCP aims to provide large sets of multimodal neuroimaging, behavioral and genetic data on the Chinese population that are comparable to the data of the HCP. The CHCP protocols were almost identical to those of the HCP, including the procedure for 3T MRI scanning, the data acquisition parameters, and the task paradigms for functional brain imaging. The CHCP also collected behavioral and genetic data that were compatible with the HCP dataset. The first public release of the CHCP dataset is in 2022.CHCP dataset includes high-resolution structural MR images (T1W and T2W), resting-state fMRI (rfMRI), task fMRI (tfMRI), and high angular resolution diffusion MR images (dMRI) of the human brain as well as behavioral data based on Chinese population. The unprocessed "raw" images of CHCP dataset (about 1.85 TB) have been released on the platform and can be downloaded. Considering our current cloud-storage service, sharing full preprocessed images (up to 70 TB) requires further construction. We will be actively cooperating with researchers who contact us for academic request, offering case-by-case solution to access the preprocessed data in a timely manner, such as by mailing hard disks or a third-party trusted cloud-storage service.V2 release:Here, we released the seven major domains task fMRI EVs files, including: 1) visual, motion, somatosensory, and motor systems; 2) category specific representations; 3) working memory/cognitive control systems; 4) language processing (semantic and phonological processing); 5) social cognition (Theory of Mind); 6) relational processing; and 7) emotion processing. CHCP SummarySubjects:366 healthy adults (Chinese Han)Imaging Scanner:3T MR (Siemens Prisma)Institution:Peking University, Beijing, ChinaFunding Agencies:Beijing Municipal Science & Technology CommissionChinese Institute for Brain Research (Beijing)National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaMinistry of Science and Technology of ChinaCHCP CitationsPapers, book chapters, books, posters, oral presentations, and all other printed and digital presentations of results derived from CHCP data should contain the following wording in the acknowledgments section:"Data were provided [in part] by the Chinese Human Connectome Project (CHCP, PI: Jia-Hong Gao) funded by the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, Chinese Institute for Brain Research (Beijing), National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China."