Behavioural and group fMRI data from young healthy participants engaged in a bimanual coordination task with concurrent dual-site beta M1 tACS
Gann M, Schwab B, Stagg CJ
Description
The dataset includes the raw behavioural data, unthresholded group fMRI maps, analysis scripts for the behavioural and fMRI data as well as the data and scripts needed to create the figures of the following manuscript: Dual-site beta transcranial alternating current stimulation during a bimanual coordination task modulates functional connectivity between motor areas (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647211v1).
In this study a group of 17 young healthy participants performed a bimanual coordination task in a concurrent tACS-fMRI design. While performing a slow and fast version of the task with force grip sensors in sync with metronome sounds, participants received one of three types of beta (20 Hz) dual-site tACS over both M1s at 4mA (peak-to-peak): in-phase (IP), jittered-phase (JP) or sham (SH), in a within-subject, repeated measures design. Each of the three task runs consisted of 16 blocks (8 fast and 8 slow) interleaved with rest blocks to allow for an fMRI block design. We measured forces applied to the force grip sensors throughout all task runs, during task and rest blocks. Further details can be found in the manuscript.
Formats
- Raw behavioural data in .txt and .mat
- Processed behavioural data and data for figures in .csv
- Unthresholded group MR maps in .nii.gz
- R scripts in .R
- Matlab scripts in .m
- MR analyses in .sh, .fsf and .txt files, description in .pdf
- Overview file for data in .xlsx
Behavioural analyses and figures were computed on a Mac Book Pro (OS Sequoia), with Matlab 2022a, and RStudio 2024.12.0 with R version 4.3.1. MR analyses were done in FSL 6.0 on the FMRIB computing cluster.
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Year Published
2025
Copyright Years
2023-2025
DOI
10.60964/bndu-mw4b-t114
Funders
DFG (German Research Foundation) (SCHW 2023/2-1)
European Research Council (101116047)
University of Oxford (Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Pump-Priming 0011905)
Wellcome Trust (224430/Z/21/Z)
Publisher
University of Oxford
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