functional MRI study on the language stress perception in a foreign language

fMRI dataset of 91 participants during a linguistic task about language stress perception in a foreign language.

Participants listened to pairs of words in a foreign language (Spanish) and had to indicate if the words were the same or different. The different pairs differed either by the stress pattern, or by the final vowel.

This dataset was divided into two groups: 51 participants with French as native language and 40 with Swiss-German as native language. None of the participants had knowledge of Spanish.

This repository respects the BIDS standard (https://bids.neuroimaging.io/), including all the raw data (func, fmap, anat) and metadata in order to reproduce the processing.

These data have been used in two papers:

S. Schwab, M. Mouthon, L.B. Jost, J. Salvadori, I. Yakoub, E. Ferreira da Silva, N. Giroud, B. Perriard and J.M. Annoni, Neural correlates of lexical stress processing in a foreign free-stress language; Brain and Behavior (2023)

L. Rogenmoser, M. Mouthon, F. Etter, J. Kamber, J.M. Annoni and S. Schwab; The processing of stress in a foreign language modulates functional antagonism between default mode and attention network regions, (submitted)