Jianqiao Ge: Center for MRI Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China. ORCID
Guoyuan Yang: Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences, School of Medical Technology, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. ORCID
Meizhen Han: McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Sizhong Zhou: Center for MRI Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Weiwei Men: Center for MRI Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Lang Qin: Center for MRI Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Hengyi Rao: Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research & Key Laboratory of Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.
Zaixu Cui: Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China.
Cultural differences and biological diversity play important roles in shaping Human brain structure and function. To date, most large-scale multimodal neuroimaging datasets have been obtained primarily from people living in Western countries, omitting the crucial contrast with populations living in other regions. The Chinese Human Connectome Project (CHCP) aims to address these resource and knowledge gaps by acquiring imaging, genetic and behavioral data from a large sample of participants living in an Eastern culture. The CHCP collected multimodal neuroimaging data from healthy Chinese adults using a protocol comparable to that of the Human Connectome Project. Comparisons between the CHCP and Human Connectome Project revealed both commonalities and distinctions in brain structure, function and connectivity. The corresponding large-scale brain parcellations were highly reproducible across the two datasets, with the language processing task showing the largest differences. The CHCP dataset is publicly available in an effort to facilitate transcultural and cross-ethnic brain-mind studies.
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