EEGdashOpenNeuroDS004324
Iss. 4324 · 26 subjects · 26 recordings · CC0
Dataset Brief · ToonFaces

DS004324: eeg dataset, 26 subjects#

ToonFaces

Citation: Luis Alberto Barradas Chacón, Selina C. Wriessnegger (2019). ToonFaces. 10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0

26-participant EEG dataset — ToonFaces.

EEG · 38 ch500 HzBIDS 1.6.0Task · RSVPHealthyMultisensoryAffect
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 DS004324

dataset = DS004324(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = DS004324(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = DS004324(
    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{ds004324,
  title = {ToonFaces},
  author = {Luis Alberto Barradas Chacón and Selina C. Wriessnegger},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

For their ease of accessibility and low cost, current Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) used to detect subjective emotional and affective states rely largely on electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. Numerous datasets are publicly available for any researcher to design models for affect detection from EEG. However, few designs focus on optimally exploiting the nature of the stimulus elicitation to improve accuracy.

We found that artificially enhanced human faces with exaggerated visual features significantly improve some commonly used neural correlates of emotion as measured by event-related potentials (ERPs). These images elicit an enhanced N170 component, well known in facial recognition encoding. Our findings suggest that the study of emotion elicitation could exploit consistent stimuli transformations to study the characteristics of ERPs related to specific affective stimuli. Furthermore, this specific result might be useful in the context of affective BCI design, where a higher accuracy in affect detection from EEG can improve the experience of a user.

Participant information has been removed for annonimation reasons.

Images of stylized faces improve ERP features used for emotion detection

References

Appelhoff, S., Sanderson, M., Brooks, T., Vliet, M., Quentin, R., Holdgraf, C., Chaumon, M., Mikulan, E., Tavabi, K., Höchenberger, R., Welke, D., Brunner, C., Rockhill, A., Larson, E., Gramfort, A. and Jas, M. (2019). MNE-BIDS: Organizing electrophysiological data into the BIDS format and facilitating their analysis. Journal of Open Source Software 4: (1896). https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01896 Pernet, C. R., Appelhoff, S., Gorgolewski, K. J., Flandin, G., Phillips, C., Delorme, A., Oostenveld, R. (2019). EEG-BIDS, an extension to the brain imaging data structure for electroencephalography. Scientific Data, 6, 103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0104-8

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Channel counts: 38 ch (n=26 recordings)

Sampling frequencies: 500.0 Hz (n=26 recordings)

Total recording duration: 19 h 12 min

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 38 ch · EEG · 500 Hz · 26 subjects, 26 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-13 · ses-01 · task-RSVP · run-01

Showing one representative recording out of 26 subjects and 26 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 · 28 sensors — 28 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 — DS004324
§ 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

DS004324

Title

ToonFaces

Author (year)

Chacon2022

Canonical

Importable as

DS004324, Chacon2022

Year

2019

Authors

Luis Alberto Barradas Chacón, Selina C. Wriessnegger

License

CC0

Citation / DOI

doi:10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{ds004324,
  title = {ToonFaces},
  author = {Luis Alberto Barradas Chacón and Selina C. Wriessnegger},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.DS004324(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Chacon2022
Canonical
Importable asDS004324 · Chacon2022
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.DS004324(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

ToonFaces

Study:

ds004324 (OpenNeuro)

Author (year):

Chacon2022

Canonical:

Also importable as: DS004324, Chacon2022.

Modality: eeg. Subjects: 26; recordings: 26; tasks: 1.

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/ds004324 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=ds004324 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.v1.0.0 NEMAR citation count: 0

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import DS004324
>>> dataset = DS004324(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/ds004324 · pull with datasets.load_dataset("EEGDash/ds004324").huggingface
Croissant 1.0Machine-readable JSON-LD descriptorDS004324.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for ds004324 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Luis Alberto Barradas Chacón, Selina C. Wriessnegger (2019). ToonFaces. 10.18112/openneuro.ds004324.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.ds004324.v1.0.0.

BIDS
BIDS 1.6.0
Sidecars
events · channels · eeg.json
Machine-readable

See Also#