EEGdashOpenNeuroDS005932
Iss. 5932 · 29 subjects · 29 recordings · CC0
Dataset Brief · PWIe

DS005932: eeg dataset, 29 subjects#

PWIe

Citation: Phillip J. Holcomb, Jacklyn Jardel, Katherine J. Midgley, and Karen Emmorey (20). PWIe. 10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0

29-participant EEG dataset — PWIe.

EEG · 32 ch500 HzBIDS 1.8.0Task · PictureWordInterferenceHealthyVisualOther
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 DS005932

dataset = DS005932(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = DS005932(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = DS005932(
    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{ds005932,
  title = {PWIe},
  author = {Phillip J. Holcomb and Jacklyn Jardel and Katherine J. Midgley and and Karen Emmorey},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

Data collection took place at the NeuroCognition Laboratory (NCL) in San Diego, California under the supervision of Dr. Phillip Holcomb. This project followed the San Diego State University’s IRB guidelines.

Participants sat in a comfortable chair in a darkened sound attenuated room throughout the experiment and wore 32 head and face electrodes (left mastoid reference). They were given a gamepad for button pressing and wore a lightweight headset to record their verbal responses. They were instructed to watch the LCD video monitor that was at a viewing distance of 150cm. All stimuli were less than 2° of horizontal and vertical visual angle.

Participants were presented with 100 unique simple black on white to-be-named line drawings, with 50 pictures in the Semantic category and 50 in the Identity category. Each picture was presented twice, once preceded by an unrelated English distractor word and once by a related English distractor word (2000 ms duration). Prime “distractor” words were presented before the picture for 200 ms and were either semantically related, were the same name as the picture, or were unrelated to the picture. Participants were told to name each picture as quickly as possible in English. Their voice response was digitized online. The experiment was self-paced and participants pressed a button after each trial when ready to go on. EEG was sampled continuously at 500 Hz with a bandpass of DC to 200 Hz. Event markers were stored with the EEG data for later ERP averaging. The raw EEG data were imported into EEGLab and saved as .set files. A key to the event code structure is contained in the PWIe bdf files for each subject.

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Age distribution (n=29, range 19–35 yr, mean 24.4 yr · sex per subject not reported)

1520253035

Sex composition

29
subjects
Female
19
Male
10
F : M ratio
1.90 : 1
66% female · n = 29 subjects with reported sex.
HandednessRight · 28Left · 1

Channel counts: 32 ch (n=29 recordings)

Sampling frequencies: 500.0 Hz (n=29 recordings)

Total recording duration: 9 h 56 min

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 32 ch · EEG · 500 Hz · 29 subjects, 29 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-13 · task-PictureWordInterference

Showing one representative recording out of 29 subjects and 29 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 — DS005932
§ 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

DS005932

Title

PWIe

Author (year)

Holcomb2025

Canonical

Importable as

DS005932, Holcomb2025

Year

20

Authors

Phillip J. Holcomb, Jacklyn Jardel, Katherine J. Midgley, and Karen Emmorey

License

CC0

Citation / DOI

doi:10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{ds005932,
  title = {PWIe},
  author = {Phillip J. Holcomb and Jacklyn Jardel and Katherine J. Midgley and and Karen Emmorey},
  doi = {10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.DS005932(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Holcomb2025
Canonical
Importable asDS005932 · Holcomb2025
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.DS005932(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

PWIe

Study:

ds005932 (OpenNeuro)

Author (year):

Holcomb2025

Canonical:

Also importable as: DS005932, Holcomb2025.

Modality: eeg; Experiment type: Other; Subject type: Healthy. Subjects: 29; recordings: 29; 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/ds005932 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=ds005932 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.v1.0.0

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import DS005932
>>> dataset = DS005932(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/ds005932 · pull with datasets.load_dataset("EEGDash/ds005932").huggingface
Croissant 1.0Machine-readable JSON-LD descriptorDS005932.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for ds005932 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Phillip J. Holcomb, Jacklyn Jardel, Katherine J. Midgley, and Karen Emmorey (20). PWIe. 10.18112/openneuro.ds005932.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.ds005932.v1.0.0.

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

See Also#