Simultaneous acquisition of EEG and NIRS during cognitive tasks for an open access dataset

We provide an open access multimodal brain-imaging dataset of simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) recordings. Twenty-six healthy participants performed three cognitive tasks: 1) n-back (0-, 2- and 3-back), 2) discrimination/selection response task (DSR) and 3) word generation (WG) tasks. The data provided includes: 1) measured data, 2) demographic data, and 3) basic analysis results. For n-back (dataset A) and DSR tasks (dataset B), event-related potential (ERP) analysis was performed, and spatiotemporal characteristics and classification results for ¡°target¡± vs. ¡°non-target¡± (dataset A) and symbol ¡°O¡± vs. symbol ¡°X¡± (dataset B) are provided. Time-frequency analysis was performed to show the EEG spectral power to differentiate the task-relevant activations. Spatiotemporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses are also shown. For the WG task (dataset C), the EEG spectral power and spatiotemporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses are analyzed, and the potential merit of hybrid EEG-NIRS BCIs was validated with respect to classification accuracy. We expect that the dataset provided will facilitate performance evaluation and comparison of many neuroimaging analysis techniques.

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Dataset description

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EEG data (MATLAB format)
- All participants¡¯ data are included in a single zip file
- size: 5.67 GB

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NIRS data (MATLAB format)
- All participants¡¯ data are included in a single zip file
- size: 760 MB

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Single participant EEG and NIRS data can be downloadable via http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-5830

Behavioral data

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NOTE: You can refer to here to reproduce the results in [1].

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EEG data (.eeg/.vhdr/.vmrk)
- Brain Products GmbH, Gilching, Germany
- size: 250~260 MB

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NIRS data (.avg/.evt/.dat/.hdr/.set/.tpl/.wl1 /.wl2 /.inf/ .txt)
- NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- size: ~ 60 MB

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If you want to publish academic paper, reports etc. using all or part of the provided files, please cite the following article:

[1]. Shin, Jaeyoung et al. "Simultaneous Acquisition of EEG and NIRS during Cognitive Tasks for an Open Access Dataset." Scientific Data submitted.

[2]. Shin, Jaeyoung, et al. "Open Access Dataset for EEG+ NIRS Single-Trial Classification." IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 25(10), (2017).

[3]. Blankertz, Benjamin, et al. "The Berlin braincomputer interface: non-medical uses of BCI technology." Frontiers in neuroscience 4 (2010).