EEGdashOpenNeuroDS004563
Iss. 4563 · 40 subjects · 119 recordings · CC0
Dataset Brief · Vicarious touch

DS004563: eeg dataset, 40 subjects#

Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch

Citation: Sophie Smit, Denise Moerel, Regine Zopf, Anina N Rich (—). Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch. 10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1

40-participant EEG dataset — Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch.

EEG · 64 ch2048 HzBIDS v1.8.0Task · touchdecoding3 sessionsOtherMultisensoryPerception
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 DS004563

dataset = DS004563(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = DS004563(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = DS004563(
    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{ds004563,
  title = {Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch},
  author = {Sophie Smit and Denise Moerel and Regine Zopf and Anina N Rich},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

Data collection took place at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. The study was approved by the Macquarie University Ethics Committee.

We used time-resolved multivariate pattern analysis on whole-brain EEG data from people with and without vicarious touch experiences to test whether seen touch evokes overlapping neural representations with the first-hand experience of touch. Participants felt touch to the fingers (tactile trials) or watched carefully matched videos of touch to another person’s fingers (visual trials).

There were 12 runs in total, divided into four blocks of 36 trials (with alternating sets of nine tactile and nine visual trials) resulting in a total of 1728 trials (864 tactile and 864 visual). There were an additional 240 target trials (20 per run), which were excluded from analysis.

Between trials there was an inter-trial-interval of 800ms. Each run lasted approximately 7-8 minutes with short breaks between blocks and runs. Whole brain 64-channel EEG data were recorded using an Active Two Biosemi system (Biosemi, Inc.) at 2048Hz and 10-20 standard caps. Stimuli were presented using MATLAB (MathWorks) and Psychtoolbox (Brainard and Vision). The experiment presentation script, all analysis code, and stimuli are made available (see code and stimuli folder). The data is made available both in raw form (see each participant’s file) and after processing (see derivatives).

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Age distribution by gender (n=40, range 17–40 yr, mean 21.8 yr)

1520253040
Female · 27Male · 13

Sex composition

40
subjects
Female
27
Male
13
F : M ratio
2.08 : 1
68% female · n = 40 subjects with reported sex.

Channel counts: 64 ch (n=119 recordings)

Sampling frequencies: 2048.0 Hz (n=119 recordings)

Total recording duration: 64 h

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 64 ch · EEG · 2048 Hz · 40 subjects, 119 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-13 · ses-02 · task-touchdecoding

Showing one representative recording out of 40 subjects and 119 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.

No scalp electrode layout is currently indexed for this dataset. Once the eegdash montage registry ingests it, the interactive viewer will appear here automatically.

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 — DS004563
§ 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

DS004563

Title

Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch

Author (year)

Smit2023

Canonical

Importable as

DS004563, Smit2023

Year

Authors

Sophie Smit, Denise Moerel, Regine Zopf, Anina N Rich

License

CC0

Citation / DOI

doi:10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{ds004563,
  title = {Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch},
  author = {Sophie Smit and Denise Moerel and Regine Zopf and Anina N Rich},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.DS004563(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Smit2023
Canonical
Importable asDS004563 · Smit2023
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.DS004563(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch

Study:

ds004563 (OpenNeuro)

Author (year):

Smit2023

Canonical:

Also importable as: DS004563, Smit2023.

Modality: eeg; Experiment type: Perception; Subject type: Other. Subjects: 40; recordings: 119; 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/ds004563 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=ds004563 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1 NEMAR citation count: 1

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import DS004563
>>> dataset = DS004563(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/ds004563 · pull with datasets.load_dataset("EEGDash/ds004563").huggingface
Croissant 1.0Machine-readable JSON-LD descriptorDS004563.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for ds004563 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Sophie Smit, Denise Moerel, Regine Zopf, Anina N Rich (n.d.). Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch. 10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1

Provenance

¹Contributed to openneuro in BIDS format.

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

³Persistent identifier: 10.18112/openneuro.ds004563.v1.0.1.

BIDS
BIDS v1.8.0
Sidecars
events · eeg.json
Machine-readable

See Also#