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. 2020 Oct 13;7:347. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00680-2

Table 2.

Description of the movies used in the naturalistic neuroimaging database.

Movie Genre Year Length (s) Scores (%) DVD Version
IMDB Meta RT ASIN EAN
500 Days of Summer Romance 2009 5470 77 76 85 B002KKBMSW 5039036043359
Citizenfour Documentary 2014 6804 81 88 96 B00YP65NEI 5050968002313
12 Years a Slave Historical 2013 7715 81 96 96 B00HR23CCM 5030305517229
Back to the Future Sci-fi 1985 6674 85 86 96 B000BVK82I 5050582401288
Little Miss Sunshine Comedy 2006 5900 78 80 91 B000JU9OJ4 5039036029667
The Prestige Thriller 2006 7515 85 66 76 B000K7LQS8 7321902106472
Pulp Fiction Action 1994 8882 89 94 94 B004UGAMY4 5060223762043
The Shawshank Redemption Drama 1994 8181 93 80 91 B001CWLFKE 5037115299635
Split Horror 2016 6739 73 62 76 B071J24232 5902115603099
The Usual Suspects Crime 1995 6102 86 84 95 B0010YXNGI 5039036033497

Ten full length movies were chosen from 10 genres. These were required to have been successful, defined as an average Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Metacritic (Meta) and Rotten Tomatoes (RT) score greater than 70%. IMDb scores were converted to percentages for this calculation. Movie lengths are given in seconds (s), also equivalent to the number of whole brain volumes collected when participants watched these movies during functional magnetic resonance imaging. The DVD version of the movies used in the database can be purchased with their unique Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) or International/European Article Number (EAN).