License

Data license

Five of the six CNeuroMod subjects (sub-01, sub-02, sub-03, sub-05 and sub-06) have chosen to openly share their data. This data is distributed under a CC0 license — it is dedicated to the public domain and may be reused, including for commercial purposes, without asking permission.

Data from sub-04 is not openly licensed. It remains available to researchers, but only through a signed inter-institutional Data Transfer Agreement (DTA) — see Access for the request process.

Copyrighted stimuli used in some experimental paradigms (e.g. movies, video games, audiobooks) are an exception to CC0: the data recorded from participants remains CC0, but the third-party stimulus material itself remains under its original copyright. See the README of each dataset for stimulus-specific details.

The floc dataset’s face/place/object localizer images are tracked from the VPNL/fLoc stimulus set, which does not itself carry a license. Their reuse terms are therefore currently unclear; an issue has been opened upstream to clarify licensing, and this page will be updated once that is resolved.

Third-party assets used under fair use or other licenses

The documentation site itself also carries a small number of third-party assets that are not CNeuroMod data and are not covered by the CC0 grant above. Each is used under its own license or a fair-use rationale, tracked individually below.

As more third-party assets are added to the site, they should be listed here with their source, author and license details.

friends.jpg

  • Depicts: Seven pairs of hands holding up pink foil balloon letters spelling “FRIENDS” against a light blue background, used as the gallery tile for the friends dataset (fMRI viewing of the Friends TV series). Replaces the earlier legacy tile (an unlicensed Friends season 1 DVD cover scan carried over from the old cneuromod.ca gallery).

  • Author: rawpixel.com, via Magnific.com (Freepik Company, S.L.U.).

  • Source: Magnific.com, “hands showing friends balloons word”, retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 7752×3072 JPG; downscaled to 600×238 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Magnific/Freepik “Free for commercial use WITH ATTRIBUTION” license (license certificate on file). Permits web use and derivative works; requires attribution “designed by rawpixel.com - Magnific.com”, credited below.

    designed by rawpixel.com - Magnific.com

petit-prince.png

  • Depicts: A boy sitting atop a cratered moon among stars, an illustration evoking the Little Prince without reproducing any book artwork, used as the gallery tile for the petit-prince dataset (fMRI listening to the audiobook of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince).

  • Author: Freepik, via Magnific.com (Freepik Company, S.L.U.).

  • Source: Magnific.com, “nice background of boy sitting on the moon”, retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 2000×2000 transparent PNG; the “designed by freepik.com” watermark baked into the artwork was cropped off, then the image was trimmed to content and downscaled to 552×600 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Magnific/Freepik “Free for commercial use WITH ATTRIBUTION” license (license certificate on file). Permits web use and derivative works; requires attribution “designed by Freepik - Magnific.com”, credited below.

    designed by Freepik - Magnific.com

  • Note: this replaces an earlier candidate, a Wikimedia Commons photo of a physical copy of the book labelled CC BY-SA 4.0 as the photographer’s “own work”. That license covers only the photograph, not the commercial book cover/illustration depicted in it — a Wikipedia licensing oversight — so it was pulled.

emotion-videos.jpg

  • Depicts: A grid of colourful cartoon emoticon faces spanning a range of moods (happy, sad, angry, surprised, in love, etc.), illustrating the emotion categories targeted by the emotion-videos dataset’s stimulus set.

  • Author: pch.vector, via Magnific.com (Freepik Company, S.L.U.).

  • Source: Magnific.com, “Emoticons with different mood and emotions set”, retrieved 2026-09-03. Downscaled 8000×4800 → 600×360 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Magnific/Freepik “Free for commercial use WITH ATTRIBUTION” license (license certificate on file). Permits web use and derivative works; requires attribution “designed by pch.vector - Magnific.com”, credited below.

    designed by pch.vector - Magnific.com

  • Note: this replaces an earlier candidate (a Cowen & Keltner 2017 PNAS figure, Fig. 2, which turned out to be standard-copyright — freely readable but not openly licensed — and additionally embedded third-party photos not licensed to this project).

mario.png

  • Depicts: A pixel-art red amanita-muscaria mushroom (a Super Mario-style power-up icon), used as the gallery tile for the mario game-play dataset.

  • Author: Vecteezy contributor (stock asset “Red mushroom fungi amanita muscaria pixel bit retro game”).

  • Source: Vecteezy, “Red mushroom fungi amanita muscaria pixel bit retro game”, downloaded under the Vecteezy Free License (license certificate on file, Vecteezy-License-Information.pdf), retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 1920×1920 JPG; trimmed to content and downscaled to 600×600 for the gallery tile. The white background was subsequently keyed out to transparent (flood-fill from the image border on near-white pixels, with the anti-aliased fringe alpha-blended) and the file re-saved as PNG on 2026-09-03, so the tile reads cleanly against both light and dark doc themes.

  • License: Vecteezy Free License. Permits use in digital projects, including modification/derivative works, with attribution to Vecteezy.com. Attribution: mushroom icon via Vecteezy.com.

harrypotter.jpg

  • Depicts: An illustrated young witch in a wide-brimmed purple hat, holding an open spellbook, used as the gallery tile for the harrypotter dataset (fMRI viewing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone). Replaces the earlier legacy tile (an unlicensed film cover scan carried over from the old cneuromod.ca gallery).

  • Author: Freepik, via Magnific.com (Freepik Company, S.L.U.). AI-generated image (“free-ai-image”).

  • Source: Magnific.com, “enchanting witch with spellbook”, retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 4000×5846 PNG; downscaled to 600×877 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Magnific/Freepik “Free for commercial use WITH ATTRIBUTION” license (license certificate on file). Permits web use and derivative works; requires attribution “designed by Freepik - Magnific.com”, credited below.

    designed by Freepik - Magnific.com

mariostars.png

  • Depicts: The same mario.png mushroom artwork (transparent background) with a yellow five-point star badge (drawn programmatically, solid fill with a dark outline) composited in the upper-right corner, to visually distinguish the mariostars dataset’s gallery tile from mario/mario3/mario_eeg.

  • Author / source / license: derivative of mario.png — see that entry above for the base artwork’s provenance and license. The star badge itself is an original vector shape with no external source.

  • Attribution: mushroom icon via Vecteezy.com.

mario3.png

  • Depicts: The same mario.png mushroom artwork (transparent background) with a yellow circular badge containing a bold white “3” (drawn programmatically) composited in the upper-right corner, to visually distinguish the mario3 dataset’s gallery tile from mario/mariostars/mario_eeg.

  • Author / source / license: derivative of mario.png — see that entry above for the base artwork’s provenance and license. The badge itself is an original shape with no external source.

  • Attribution: mushroom icon via Vecteezy.com.

shinobi.png

  • Depicts: A stylised colourful ninja mascot logo (armoured ninja head crossed by two katanas in front of a shuriken-star badge, “SHINOBI” banner beneath), used as the gallery tile for the shinobi game-play dataset. Replaces the earlier legacy tile (an unlicensed Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master Sega Mega Drive box art scan carried over from the old cneuromod.ca gallery).

  • Author: pikisuperstar, via Magnific.com (Freepik Company, S.L.U.).

  • Source: Magnific.com, “detailed colorful ninja logo”, retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 2000×2000 transparent PNG; trimmed to content (1538×1538) and downscaled to 600×600 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Magnific/Freepik “Free for commercial use WITH ATTRIBUTION” license (license certificate on file). Permits web use and derivative works; requires attribution “designed by pikisuperstar - Magnific.com”, credited below.

    designed by pikisuperstar - Magnific.com

ood.jpg

  • Depicts: A publicity still of Charlie Chaplin in his “Tramp” costume (bowler hat, cane), from the 1915 Essanay Studios film The Tramp, used as the gallery tile for the ood dataset (out-of-distribution audiovisual stimuli held out to test generalization of brain encoding models).

  • Author: P.D Jankens.

  • Source: Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia, File:Charlie_Chaplin.jpg, uploaded by Fred Chess, retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 1280×1600 (JPEG); downscaled to 600×743 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Public domain in the United States (published before January 1, 1931; PD-US-expired/PD-1923). No attribution required.

movie10.jpg

  • Depicts: Portrait photograph of mathematician Katherine Johnson, taken at NASA in 1983, used as the gallery tile for the movie10 dataset (fMRI viewing of ten feature films, including Hidden Figures, the biographical drama about Johnson and her colleagues). Replaces the earlier legacy tile (an unlicensed Hidden Figures DVD/poster cover scan carried over from the old cneuromod.ca gallery).

  • Author: NASA.

  • Source: Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia, File:Katherine_Johnson_1983.jpg (original at NASA’s historic archive, 1983-L-04373.jpg), retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 2400×3000 grayscale JPG; downscaled to 600×750 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Public domain (PD-USGov/PD-NASA) — NASA material is not protected by copyright unless explicitly noted. No attribution required, though NASA is credited above as a courtesy.

anat.jpg

  • Depicts: A montage of anatomical and quantitative MRI acquisitions (T1w, T2w, MP2RAGE, ME-GRE, magnetization transfer, diffusion-weighted imaging) with labels for the morphometry/demyelination/axon-degeneration measures each protocol targets, used as the gallery tile for the anat dataset.

  • Author: Mathieu Boudreau, Agah Karakuzu, Arnaud Boré, Basile Pinsard, Kiril Zelenkovski, Eva Alonso-Ortiz, Julie Boyle, Lune Bellec, Julien Cohen-Adad — the authors of the dataset’s preferred-citation paper (see anat/CITATION.cff), “Longitudinal reproducibility of brain and spinal cord quantitative MRI biomarkers”, Imaging Neuroscience, 2025.

  • Source: Figure from the above paper, carried over unchanged from the legacy cneuromod.ca gallery (retrieved 2026-09-02; see README.md in this directory).

  • License: CC-BY 4.0, per the authors of the paper.

mario_eeg.png

  • Depicts: The same mario.png mushroom artwork (transparent background) with a white circular badge, dark outline, containing a yellow jagged waveform evoking an EEG trace (drawn programmatically) composited in the upper-right corner, used as the gallery tile for the mario_eeg dataset.

  • Author / source / license: derivative of mario.png — see that entry above for the base artwork’s provenance and license. The badge and waveform are original shapes with no external source.

  • Attribution: mushroom icon via Vecteezy.com.

langlocalizer.png

  • Depicts: Figure from the paper illustrating the language localizer task (sentences vs. degraded/nonword controls), used as the gallery tile for the langlocalizer dataset.

  • Author: Benjamin Lipkin, Greta Tuckute, Josef Affourtit, Hannah Small, Zachary Mineroff, Hope Kean, Olessia Jouravlev, Lara Rakocevic, Brianna Pritchett, Matthew Siegelman, Caitlyn Hoeflin, Alvincé Pongos, Idan A. Blank, Melissa Kline Struhl, Anna Ivanova, Steven Shannon, Aalok Sathe, Malte Hoffmann, Alfonso Nieto-Castañón, and Evelina Fedorenko — “Probabilistic atlas for the language network based on precision fMRI data from >800 individuals”, Scientific Data, 2022.

  • Source: doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01645-3, retrieved 2026-09-03.

  • License: CC BY 4.0, per the journal (Scientific Data).

narratives.jpg

  • Depicts: Title-page illustration for The Orphant Annie Book (James Whitcomb Riley, 1908) showing a group of children gathered around a woman telling them a story, used as the gallery tile for the narratives dataset (fMRI listening to spoken narratives).

  • Author: Ethel Franklin Betts (1877–1959).

  • Source: Wikimedia Commons, File:Orphant Annie Book – Title page.jpg, from The Orphant Annie Book, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, 1908 (via Internet Archive), retrieved 2026-09-03. Original 1776×1121; downscaled to 600×379 for the gallery tile.

  • License: Public domain in the United States (published before January 1, 1931; PD-US-expired/PD-1923). No attribution required.

hcptrt.png

  • Depicts: A lateral-view brain connectivity/decoding network diagram (coloured nodes and connecting edges over a brain silhouette), used as the gallery tile for the hcptrt dataset. Replaces the earlier legacy tile of the same filename carried over from the old cneuromod.ca gallery (retrieved 2026-09-02; undocumented provenance).

  • Author: Shima Rastegarnia, Marie St-Laurent, Elizabeth DuPre, Basile Pinsard, Pierre Bellec — authors of the dataset’s preferred-citation paper (see hcptrt/CITATION.cff), “Brain decoding of the Human Connectome Project tasks in a dense individual fMRI dataset”, NeuroImage, vol. 283, 2023.

  • Source: Figure from the above paper, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120395, retrieved 2026-09-03. 544×460 PNG with transparent background.

  • License: CC BY 4.0, per the publisher (confirmed via Crossref metadata and the article page license link, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).