EEGdashOpenNeuroDS003969
Iss. 3969 · 98 subjects · 392 recordings · CC0
Dataset Brief · Meditation vs thinking task

DS003969: eeg dataset, 98 subjects#

Meditation vs thinking task

Citation: Arnaud Delorme, Claire Braboszcz (—). Meditation vs thinking task. 10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0

98-participant EEG dataset — Meditation vs thinking task.

EEG · 79 (294), 72 (98) ch1024 Hz · mixedBIDS v1.2.14 tasksHealthyAuditoryAttention
Layer 01Study
What was asked
Hypothesis, independent & dependent variables, paradigm, cohort, and the editorial caveats around what the recordings can and cannot answer.
Layer 02Signal · BIDS
What was recorded
Sidecars, channels & electrodes, coordinate system, event semantics, and quality stats from the NEMAR pipeline when available.
Layer 03Training · ML
What you can train on
Recommended access modes — MNE Raw, braindecode windows, PyTorch DataLoader — plus the targets the metadata makes addressable.
§ 01Access · Get started

Quickstart#

Install

pip install eegdash

Access the data

from eegdash.dataset import DS003969

dataset = DS003969(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = DS003969(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = DS003969(
    cache_dir="./data",
    query={"subject": {"$in": ["01", "02"]}},
)

Iterate recordings

for rec in dataset:
    print(rec.subject, rec.raw.info['sfreq'])

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the original authors.

BibTeX

@dataset{ds003969,
  title = {Meditation vs thinking task},
  author = {Arnaud Delorme and Claire Braboszcz},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

Data collection took place at the Meditation Research Institute (MRI) in Rishikesh, India, under the supervision of Arnaud Delorme, Ph.D. The project was approved by the local MRI Indian ethical committee and the ethical committee of the University of California San Diego (IRB project # 090731).

Participants sat either on a blanket on the floor or on a chair for both experimental periods depending on their personal preference. Participants were asked to keep their eyes closed, and all lighting in the room was turned off during data collection. An intercom allowed communication between the experimental and the recording room.

Participants performed four blocks, 2 meditation blocks interspaced by two thining blocks (in which they are instructed to think actively). Half of the participants start with a meditation block, and half of them start with a thinking block. The first meditation block is a breath counting meditation for all participants. The second block is a tradition-specific meditation - except for the control group, for which it is a breath counting meditation.

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Age distribution by gender (n=97, range 22–74 yr, mean 43.9 yr)

2025303540455055606570
Other · 97

Sex composition

98
subjects
Female
26
Male
72
F : M ratio
0.36 : 1
27% female · n = 98 subjects with reported sex.

Channel counts (ch)

7279

Sampling frequencies (Hz)

10242048

Total recording duration: 66 h

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 79 (294), 72 (98) ch · EEG · 1024 Hz · mixed · 98 subjects, 392 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-021 · task-think1

Showing one representative recording out of 98 subjects and 392 recordings in this dataset. Browse the full set on OpenNeuro; drop any other _eeg.{set,edf,bdf,vhdr} file onto the viewer (or pass ?eeg=<url>) to inspect it.

Electrode layout — EEG · 64 sensors — 64 channels

NEMAR Processing Statistics#

The plots below are generated by NEMAR’s automated EEG pipeline. The histogram shows pipeline success for data cleaning and ICA decomposition, the percentage of data frames and EEG channels retained after artefact removal, line noise per channel (RMS, dB), and the age/gender distribution of participants.

HED event descriptors word cloud HED event descriptors word cloud — DS003969
§ 05Manifest · BIDS tree

Manifest#

File Explorer#

Browse the BIDS file structure of this dataset. Records are fetched on demand from the EEGDash catalog the first time you open the explorer.

Recordings
Files
Subjects
Modalities
Click to load file structure…
Full dataset metadata table

Dataset ID

DS003969

Title

Meditation vs thinking task

Author (year)

Delorme2021

Canonical

Importable as

DS003969, Delorme2021

Year

Authors

Arnaud Delorme, Claire Braboszcz

License

CC0

Citation / DOI

doi:10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{ds003969,
  title = {Meditation vs thinking task},
  author = {Arnaud Delorme and Claire Braboszcz},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.DS003969(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Delorme2021
Canonical
Importable asDS003969 · Delorme2021
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.DS003969(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

Meditation vs thinking task

Study:

ds003969 (OpenNeuro)

Author (year):

Delorme2021

Canonical:

Also importable as: DS003969, Delorme2021.

Modality: eeg. Subjects: 98; recordings: 392; tasks: 4.

Parameters:
  • cache_dir (str | Path) – Directory where data are cached locally.

  • query (dict | None) – Additional MongoDB-style filters to AND with the dataset selection. Must not contain the key dataset.

  • s3_bucket (str | None) – Base S3 bucket used to locate the data.

  • **kwargs (dict) – Additional keyword arguments forwarded to EEGDashDataset.

data_dir#

Local dataset cache directory (cache_dir / dataset_id).

Type:

Path

query#

Merged query with the dataset filter applied.

Type:

dict

records#

Metadata records used to build the dataset, if pre-fetched.

Type:

list[dict] | None

Notes

Each item is a recording; recording-level metadata are available via dataset.description. query supports MongoDB-style filters on fields in ALLOWED_QUERY_FIELDS and is combined with the dataset filter. Dataset-specific caveats are not provided in the summary metadata.

References

OpenNeuro dataset: https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds003969 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=ds003969 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0 NEMAR citation count: 7

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import DS003969
>>> dataset = DS003969(cache_dir="./data")
>>> recording = dataset[0]
>>> raw = recording.load()
__init__(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#
save(path: str, overwrite: bool = False, offset: int = 0)[source]#

Save datasets to files by creating one subdirectory for each dataset:

path/
    0/
        0-raw.fif | 0-epo.fif
        description.json
        raw_preproc_kwargs.json (if raws were preprocessed)
        window_kwargs.json (if this is a windowed dataset)
        window_preproc_kwargs.json  (if windows were preprocessed)
        target_name.json (if target_name is not None and dataset is raw)
    1/
        1-raw.fif | 1-epo.fif
        description.json
        raw_preproc_kwargs.json (if raws were preprocessed)
        window_kwargs.json (if this is a windowed dataset)
        window_preproc_kwargs.json  (if windows were preprocessed)
        target_name.json (if target_name is not None and dataset is raw)
Parameters:
  • path (str) –

    Directory in which subdirectories are created to store

    -raw.fif | -epo.fif and .json files to.

  • overwrite (bool) – Whether to delete old subdirectories that will be saved to in this call.

  • offset (int) – If provided, the integer is added to the id of the dataset in the concat. This is useful in the setting of very large datasets, where one dataset has to be processed and saved at a time to account for its original position.

Access modesMNE → braindecode → PyTorch → ML
.rawMNE Raw object — standard tools (filter, epoch, ICA, plot_psd).mne
DataLoaderWraps the windowed dataset into a PyTorch DataLoader; supports parallel workers and on-the-fly augmentations.pytorch
Zarr cacheOptional braindecode Zarr mirror for fast resume; persisted to cache_dir.zarr
Hugging FacePre-bundled mirror at EEGDash/ds003969 · pull with datasets.load_dataset("EEGDash/ds003969").huggingface
Croissant 1.0Machine-readable JSON-LD descriptorDS003969.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for ds003969 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Arnaud Delorme, Claire Braboszcz (n.d.). Meditation vs thinking task. 10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0

Provenance

¹Contributed to openneuro in BIDS format.

²Curated & ingested by the EEGDash catalog; see CITATION.cff for canonical reference.

³Persistent identifier: 10.18112/openneuro.ds003969.v1.0.0.

BIDS
BIDS v1.2.1
Sidecars
channels · eeg.json
Machine-readable

See Also#