The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: an overview
David C Van Essen, Stephen M Smith, Deanna M Barch, Timothy E J Behrens, Essa Yacoub, Kamil Ugurbil, WU-Minn HCP Consortium, David Van Essen, Deanna Barch, Maurizio Corbetta, Alison Goate, Andrew Heath, Linda Larson-Prior, Daniel Marcus, Steve Petersen, Fred Prior, Mike Province, Marc Raichle, Brad Schlaggar, Joshua Shimony, Avi Snyder, Babatunde Adeyemo, Kevin Archie, Abbas Babajani-Feremi, Nicholas Bloom, James Edward Bryant, Greg Burgess, Eileen Cler, Timothy Coalson, Sandy Curtiss, Susan Danker, Rose Denness, Donna Dierker, Jennifer Elam, Tami Evans, Cynthia Feldt, Kelly Fenlon, Owen Footer, Matthew Glasser, Evan Gordon, Ping Gu, Corrinne Guilday, Michael Harms, Tucker Hartley, John Harwell, Michael Hileman, Michael Hodge, Linda Hood, Will Horton, Matthew House, Timothy Laumann, Michael Lugo, Stacey Marion, Fran Miezin, Dan Nolan, Tracy Nolan, Jonathan Power, Mohanna Ramaratnam, Erin Reid, Jon Schindler, Denise Schmitz, Chip Schweiss, James Serati, Bryan Taylor, Malcolm Tobias, Tony Wilson, Kamil Ugurbil, Michael Garwood, Noam Harel, Christophe Lenglet, Essa Yacoub, Gregor Adriany, Edward Auerbach, Steen Moeller, John Strupp, Stephen Smith, Tim Behrens, Mark Jenkinson, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Karla Miller, Mark Woolrich, Jesper Andersson, Eugene Duff, Moises Hernandez, Saad Jbabdi, Emma Robinson, Reza Salimi-Khorshidi, Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Gian Luca Romani, Stefania Della Penna, Vittorio Pizzella, Francesco de Pasquale, Francesco Di Pompeo, Laura Marzetti, Gianni Perruci, Richard Bucholz, Tyler Roskos, Tera Kiser, Qian Jessie Luo, Jeff Stout, Robert Oostenveld, Christian Beckmann, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Pascal Fries, Giorgos Michalareas, Guillermo Sapiro, Olaf Sporns, Thomas Nichols, Greg Farber, James Bjork, Thomas Blumensath, Audrey Chang, Liyong Chen, David Feinberg, Lynda Kull, Gagan Wig, Junqian Gordon Xu, Peter Basser, Ed Bullmore, Alan Evans, Mike Gazzaniga, David Glahn, Mike Hawrylycz, Jürgen Hennig, Geoff Parker, Russ Poldrack, Riita Salmelin, David C Van Essen, Stephen M Smith, Deanna M Barch, Timothy E J Behrens, Essa Yacoub, Kamil Ugurbil, WU-Minn HCP Consortium, David Van Essen, Deanna Barch, Maurizio Corbetta, Alison Goate, Andrew Heath, Linda Larson-Prior, Daniel Marcus, Steve Petersen, Fred Prior, Mike Province, Marc Raichle, Brad Schlaggar, Joshua Shimony, Avi Snyder, Babatunde Adeyemo, Kevin Archie, Abbas Babajani-Feremi, Nicholas Bloom, James Edward Bryant, Greg Burgess, Eileen Cler, Timothy Coalson, Sandy Curtiss, Susan Danker, Rose Denness, Donna Dierker, Jennifer Elam, Tami Evans, Cynthia Feldt, Kelly Fenlon, Owen Footer, Matthew Glasser, Evan Gordon, Ping Gu, Corrinne Guilday, Michael Harms, Tucker Hartley, John Harwell, Michael Hileman, Michael Hodge, Linda Hood, Will Horton, Matthew House, Timothy Laumann, Michael Lugo, Stacey Marion, Fran Miezin, Dan Nolan, Tracy Nolan, Jonathan Power, Mohanna Ramaratnam, Erin Reid, Jon Schindler, Denise Schmitz, Chip Schweiss, James Serati, Bryan Taylor, Malcolm Tobias, Tony Wilson, Kamil Ugurbil, Michael Garwood, Noam Harel, Christophe Lenglet, Essa Yacoub, Gregor Adriany, Edward Auerbach, Steen Moeller, John Strupp, Stephen Smith, Tim Behrens, Mark Jenkinson, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Karla Miller, Mark Woolrich, Jesper Andersson, Eugene Duff, Moises Hernandez, Saad Jbabdi, Emma Robinson, Reza Salimi-Khorshidi, Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Gian Luca Romani, Stefania Della Penna, Vittorio Pizzella, Francesco de Pasquale, Francesco Di Pompeo, Laura Marzetti, Gianni Perruci, Richard Bucholz, Tyler Roskos, Tera Kiser, Qian Jessie Luo, Jeff Stout, Robert Oostenveld, Christian Beckmann, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Pascal Fries, Giorgos Michalareas, Guillermo Sapiro, Olaf Sporns, Thomas Nichols, Greg Farber, James Bjork, Thomas Blumensath, Audrey Chang, Liyong Chen, David Feinberg, Lynda Kull, Gagan Wig, Junqian Gordon Xu, Peter Basser, Ed Bullmore, Alan Evans, Mike Gazzaniga, David Glahn, Mike Hawrylycz, Jürgen Hennig, Geoff Parker, Russ Poldrack, Riita Salmelin
Abstract
The Human Connectome Project consortium led by Washington University, University of Minnesota, and Oxford University is undertaking a systematic effort to map macroscopic human brain circuits and their relationship to behavior in a large population of healthy adults. This overview article focuses on progress made during the first half of the 5-year project in refining the methods for data acquisition and analysis. Preliminary analyses based on a finalized set of acquisition and preprocessing protocols demonstrate the exceptionally high quality of the data from each modality. The first quarterly release of imaging and behavioral data via the ConnectomeDB database demonstrates the commitment to making HCP datasets freely accessible. Altogether, the progress to date provides grounds for optimism that the HCP datasets and associated methods and software will become increasingly valuable resources for characterizing human brain connectivity and function, their relationship to behavior, and their heritability and genetic underpinnings.
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