EEGdashOpenNeuroDS004942
Iss. 4942 · 62 subjects · 62 recordings · CC0
Dataset Brief · SpatialMemory

DS004942: eeg dataset, 62 subjects#

SpatialMemory

Citation: Paul Kieffaber, Makenna McGill (—). SpatialMemory. 10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0

62-participant EEG dataset — SpatialMemory.

EEG · 65 ch1000 HzBIDS 1.8.0Task · SpatialMemoryHealthyVisualMemory
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 DS004942

dataset = DS004942(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = DS004942(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = DS004942(
    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{ds004942,
  title = {SpatialMemory},
  author = {Paul Kieffaber and Makenna McGill},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

Visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM) for sequences is thought to be crucial for daily behaviors. Decades of research indicate that oscillations in the gamma and theta bands play important functional roles in the support of visuo-spatial working memory, but the vast majority of that research emphasizes measures of neural activity during memory retention. The primary aims of the present study were (1) to determine whether oscillatory dynamics in the Theta and Gamma ranges would reflect item-level sequence encoding during a computerized spatial span task, (2) to determine whether item-level sequence recall is also related to these neural oscillations, and (3) to determine the nature of potential changes to these processes in healthy cognitive aging. Results indicate that VSWM sequence encoding is related to later (~700 ms) gamma band oscillatory dynamics and may be preserved in healthy older adults; high gamma power over midline frontal and posterior sites increased monotonically as items were added to the spatial sequence in both age groups. Item-level oscillatory dynamics during the recall of VSWM sequences were related only to theta-gamma phase amplitude coupling (PAC), which increased monotonically with serial position in both age groups. Results suggest that, despite a general decrease in frontal theta power during VSWM sequence recall in older adults, gamma band dynamics during encoding and theta-gamma PAC during retrieval play unique roles in VSWM and that the processes they reflect may be spared in healthy aging.

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Channel counts: 65 ch (n=62 recordings)

Sampling frequencies: 1000.0 Hz (n=62 recordings)

Total recording duration: 28 h

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 65 ch · EEG · 1000 Hz · 62 subjects, 62 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-021 · task-SpatialMemory

Showing one representative recording out of 62 subjects and 62 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 — DS004942
§ 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

DS004942

Title

SpatialMemory

Author (year)

Kieffaber2024

Canonical

Importable as

DS004942, Kieffaber2024

Year

Authors

Paul Kieffaber, Makenna McGill

License

CC0

Citation / DOI

doi:10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{ds004942,
  title = {SpatialMemory},
  author = {Paul Kieffaber and Makenna McGill},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.DS004942(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Kieffaber2024
Canonical
Importable asDS004942 · Kieffaber2024
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.DS004942(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

SpatialMemory

Study:

ds004942 (OpenNeuro)

Author (year):

Kieffaber2024

Canonical:

Also importable as: DS004942, Kieffaber2024.

Modality: eeg. Subjects: 62; recordings: 62; 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/ds004942 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=ds004942 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.v1.0.0 NEMAR citation count: 1

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import DS004942
>>> dataset = DS004942(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/ds004942 · pull with datasets.load_dataset("EEGDash/ds004942").huggingface
Croissant 1.0Machine-readable JSON-LD descriptorDS004942.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for ds004942 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Paul Kieffaber, Makenna McGill (n.d.). SpatialMemory. 10.18112/openneuro.ds004942.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.ds004942.v1.0.0.

BIDS
BIDS 1.8.0
Sidecars
events · channels · eeg.json
Machine-readable

See Also#