Functional magnetic resonance imaging data of incremental increases in visuo-spatial difficulty in an adult lifespan sample

Data Brief. 2017 Jan 11:11:54-60. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.01.004. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Abstract

These data provide coordinates generated from a large healthy adult lifespan sample undergoing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) while completing a spatial judgment task with varying levels of difficulty, as well as a control categorical condition. The data presented here include the average blood-oxygen-dependent (BOLD) response to the spatial judgment vs. the control task, as well as the BOLD response to incremental increasing difficulty; see also "Age-related Reduction of BOLD Modulation to Cognitive Difficulty Predicts Poorer Task Accuracy and Poorer Fluid Reasoning Ability" (Rieck et al., 2017) [1].

Keywords: Aging; BOLD; Difficulty; Lifespan; Spatial judgment; fMRI.