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At the same time, the study emphasizes breadth: it includes both fixation-based and naturalistic movie-viewing resting-state scans, high-resolution T1- and T2-weighted anatomical images, and diffusion-weighted imaging. Beyond neuroimaging, the dataset includes behavioural measures of reading performance, assessments of cognitive ability, a mental health screening, and a pre-session state questionnaire. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of the dataset, including image quality metrics derived from MRIQC for all imaging modalities. We further illustrate the dataset’s utility with first-level activation maps from three participants contrasting visual discrimination tasks with control. The ANC language dataset offers a comprehensive resource for investigating the neural architecture of word processing at the individual level, integrating functional, structural, and connectivity data.</jats:p>","journal":"Aperture Neuro","year":2026,"id":3343,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":0.0,"corpus_rank":765,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9465,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2026-02-03","fair_score":59.375,"fair_percentile":92.4802110817942,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":35599,"name":"Martin 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