How to Cite

Required acknowledgement text

We kindly ask that all publications using the CNeuroMod data include the following paragraph in their acknowledgement section:

“The Courtois project on neural modelling was made possible by a generous donation from the Courtois foundation, administered by the Fondation Institut Gériatrie Montréal at CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal and University of Montreal. The Courtois NeuroMod team is based at Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, with several other institutions involved. See the CNeuroMod documentation for an up-to-date list of contributors (https://docs.cneuromod.ca).”

Key reference

Boyle, J.A., Pinsard, B., et al. (2025). CNeuroMod Data Collection Complete: 200h of individual fMRI Across Diverse Naturalistic and Controlled Tasks to build NeuroAI models. Abstract presented at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2025).

Download CCN 2025 abstract

Note

For each dataset in the CNeuroMod collection, the documentation page of that dataset recommends a specific reference to cite when using that dataset.

Naming the Data Release

We encourage including the name of the CNeuroMod release used in your analysis (e.g. cneuromod-2020) and any relevant excerpt from this documentation. Although some journals flag reproductions of technical documentation as plagiarism, using standardised wording aids consistency and reproducibility. Please reproduce this documentation verbatim to the greatest extent possible and justify to the editor that this practice does not constitute plagiarism.

License

Data are shared by the CNeuroMod team under a CC0 license. Exceptions apply for copyrighted stimuli — see the README of each dataset for details.