Beyond MRI: on the scientific value of combining non-human primate neuroimaging with metadata
Colline Poirier,
Suliann Ben Hamed,
Pamela Garcia-Saldivar,
Sze Chai Kwok,
Adrien Meguerditchian,
Hugo Merchant,
Jeffrey Rogers,
Sara Wells,
Andrew S. Fox
Affiliations
Colline Poirier
Biosciences Institute & Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle 6, UK; Corresponding author.
Suliann Ben Hamed
Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR 5229, Université de Lyon – CNRS, France
Pamela Garcia-Saldivar
Instituto de Neurobiología, UNAM, Campus Juriquilla. Boulevard Juriquilla No. 3001 Querétaro, Qro. 76230 México
Sze Chai Kwok
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China; NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Adrien Meguerditchian
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, Institut Language, Communication and the Brain 13331 Marseille, France
Hugo Merchant
Instituto de Neurobiología, UNAM, Campus Juriquilla. Boulevard Juriquilla No. 3001 Querétaro, Qro. 76230 México
Jeffrey Rogers
Human Genome Sequencing Center and Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA 77030
Sara Wells
Centre for Macaques, MRC Harwell Institute, Porton Down, Salisbury, United Kingdom
Andrew S. Fox
California National Primate Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
Sharing and pooling large amounts of non-human primate neuroimaging data offer new exciting opportunities to understand the primate brain. The potential of big data in non-human primate neuroimaging could however be tremendously enhanced by combining such neuroimaging data with other types of information. Here we describe metadata that have been identified as particularly valuable by the non-human primate neuroimaging community, including behavioural, genetic, physiological and phylogenetic data.
