EEGdashNeMARNM000126
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Dataset Brief · Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset

NM000126: eeg dataset, 34 subjects#

Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset

Citation: Yijun Wang, Xiaogang Chen, Xiaorong Gao, Shangkai Gao (2016). Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset. 10.82901/nemar.nm000126

34-participant EEG dataset — Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset.

EEG · 64 ch250 HzBIDS 1.9.0Task · ssvepHealthyVisualPerception
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 NM000126

dataset = NM000126(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = NM000126(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = NM000126(
    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{nm000126,
  title = {Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset},
  author = {Yijun Wang and Xiaogang Chen and Xiaorong Gao and Shangkai Gao},
  doi = {10.82901/nemar.nm000126},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.nm000126},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset.

Schema: HED 8.4.0 | Browse: https://www.hedtags.org/hed-schema-browser

DOI

SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset

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DOI

SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset

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Paradigm-Specific Parameters

  • Detected paradigm: ssvep

  • Stimulus frequencies: [8.0, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, 9.0, 9.2, 9.4, 9.6, 9.8, 10.0, 10.2, 10.4, 10.6, 10.8, 11.0, 11.2, 11.4, 11.6, 11.8, 12.0, 12.2, 12.4, 12.6, 12.8, 13.0, 13.2, 13.4, 13.6, 13.8, 14.0, 14.2, 14.4, 14.6, 14.8, 15.0, 15.2, 15.4, 15.6, 15.8] Hz

  • Frequency resolution: 0.2 Hz

  • Number of targets: 40

  • Number of repetitions: 6

  • Cue duration: 0.5 s

Data Structure

  • Trials: 240

  • Trials per class: per_target=6

  • Blocks per session: 6

  • Trials context: 40 trials per block corresponding to all 40 characters in random order

Preprocessing

  • Data state: Raw epochs extracted from continuous EEG recordings according to stimulus onsets, downsampled to 250 Hz, no digital filters applied

  • Preprocessing applied: True

  • Steps: Epoch extraction according to stimulus onsets from event channel, Downsampling from 1000 Hz to 250 Hz, No digital filters applied in preprocessing

  • Downsampled to: 250.0 Hz

  • Epoch window: [-0.5, 5.5]

  • Notes: Data epochs include 0.5 s before stimulus onset, 5 s for stimulation, and 0.5 s after stimulus offset. Upper bound frequency of SSVEP harmonics is around 90 Hz.

Signal Processing

  • Classifiers: CCA, FBCCA

  • Feature extraction: Canonical Correlation Analysis, Filter Bank CCA

  • Frequency bands: analyzed=[7.0, 90.0] Hz

Cross-Validation

  • Method: leave-one-out (on six blocks)

  • Folds: 6

  • Evaluation type: within_subject

Performance (Original Study)

  • Itr: 117.75 bits/min

  • Peak Itr Fbcca 0.55S Gaze: 117.75

  • Peak Itr Fbcca 2S Gaze: 68.99

  • Peak Itr Cca 0.55S Gaze: 89.89

  • Peak Itr Cca 2S Gaze: 56.03

  • Visual Latency Ms: 136.91

  • Visual Latency Std Ms: 18.4

BCI Application

  • Applications: speller

  • Environment: dimly lit soundproof room

  • Online feedback: False

Tags

  • Pathology: Healthy

  • Modality: Visual

  • Type: Perception

Documentation

  • Description: A benchmark SSVEP dataset acquired with a 40-target BCI speller using joint frequency and phase modulation (JFPM) approach

  • DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2627556

  • License: CC-BY-4.0

  • Investigators: Yijun Wang, Xiaogang Chen, Xiaorong Gao, Shangkai Gao

  • Senior author: Shangkai Gao

  • Contact: wangyj@semi.ac.cn; chenxg@bme.cams.cn; gxrdea@tsinghua.edu.cn; gsk-dea@tsinghua.edu.cn

  • Institution: Tsinghua University

  • Department: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University

  • Address: Beijing, China

  • Country: CN

  • Repository: BNCI Horizon 2020

  • Data URL: http://bci.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/download.html

  • Publication year: 2016

  • Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61431007, No. 91220301, and No. 91320202); National High-tech R&D Program (863) of China (No. 2012AA011601); Recruitment Program for Young Professionals; Young Talents Lift Project of Chinese Association of Science and Technology; PUMC Youth Fund (No. 3332016101)

  • Ethics approval: Research Ethics Committee of Tsinghua University

  • Keywords: Brain–computer interface (BCI), electroencephalogram (EEG), joint frequency and phase modulation (JFPM), public data set, steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)

External Links

Abstract

This paper presents a benchmark steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) dataset acquired with a 40-target brain–computer interface (BCI) speller. The dataset consists of 64-channel Electroencephalogram (EEG) data from 35 healthy subjects (8 experienced and 27 naïve) while they performed a cue-guided target selecting task. The virtual keyboard of the speller was composed of 40 visual flickers, which were coded using a joint frequency and phase modulation (JFPM) approach. The stimulation frequencies ranged from 8 Hz to 15.8 Hz with an interval of 0.2 Hz. The phase difference between two adjacent frequencies was 0.5π. For each subject, the data included six blocks of 40 trials corresponding to all 40 flickers indicated by a visual cue in a random order. The stimulation duration in each trial was five seconds.

Methodology

The study used a cue-guided target selecting task with a 40-target BCI speller. Stimuli were presented on a 23.6-in LCD monitor at 60 Hz using sampled sinusoidal stimulation method. Each trial started with a 0.5-s target cue, followed by 5 s of concurrent flickering of all stimuli, and ended with 0.5 s blank screen. The experiment included six blocks per subject, with 40 trials per block in random order. EEG data were recorded using Synamps2 system at 1000 Hz with 64 electrodes, referenced to Cz. Data were preprocessed by extracting epochs according to stimulus onsets and downsampling to 250 Hz. The JFPM approach encoded 40 characters using frequencies from 8-15.8 Hz (0.2 Hz interval) and phases from 0 to 19.5π (0.5π interval). Performance was evaluated using CCA and FBCCA methods with leave-one-out cross-validation.

References

Wang, Y., Chen, X., Gao, X., & Gao, S. (2016). A benchmark dataset for SSVEP-based brain–computer interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(10), 1746-1752. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2627556.

Appelhoff, S., Sanderson, M., Brooks, T., Vliet, M., Quentin, R., Holdgraf, C., Chaumon, M., Mikulan, E., Tavabi, K., Hochenberger, 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 Generated by MOABB 1.4.3 (Mother of All BCI Benchmarks) NeuroTechX/moabb

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Age distribution by gender (n=34, range 22–22 yr, mean 22.0 yr)

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Other · 34

Channel counts: 64 ch (n=34 recordings)

Sampling frequencies: 250.0 Hz (n=34 recordings)

Total recording duration: 14 h 30 min

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 64 ch · EEG · 250 Hz · 34 subjects, 34 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-13 · ses-0 · task-ssvep · run-0

Showing one representative recording out of 34 subjects and 34 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 · 62 sensors — 62 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 — NM000126
§ 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
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Full dataset metadata table

Dataset ID

NM000126

Title

Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset

Author (year)

Wang2016

Canonical

Importable as

NM000126, Wang2016

Year

2016

Authors

Yijun Wang, Xiaogang Chen, Xiaorong Gao, Shangkai Gao

License

CC-BY-4.0

Citation / DOI

10.82901/nemar.nm000126

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{nm000126,
  title = {Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset},
  author = {Yijun Wang and Xiaogang Chen and Xiaorong Gao and Shangkai Gao},
  doi = {10.82901/nemar.nm000126},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.nm000126},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.NM000126(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Wang2016
Canonical
Importable asNM000126 · Wang2016
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.NM000126(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset

Study:

nm000126 (NeMAR)

Author (year):

Wang2016

Canonical:

Also importable as: NM000126, Wang2016.

Modality: eeg; Experiment type: Perception; Subject type: Healthy. Subjects: 34; recordings: 34; 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/nm000126 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=nm000126 DOI: https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.nm000126

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import NM000126
>>> dataset = NM000126(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 FaceNo per-dataset mirror published yet — browse the EEGDash org listing for sibling datasets. See the datasets loader API.huggingface
Croissant 1.0Machine-readable JSON-LD descriptorNM000126.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for nm000126 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Yijun Wang, Xiaogang Chen, Xiaorong Gao, Shangkai Gao (2016). Wang2016 – SSVEP Wang 2016 dataset. 10.82901/nemar.nm000126

Provenance

¹Contributed to nemar in BIDS format.

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

³Persistent identifier: 10.82901/nemar.nm000126.

BIDS
BIDS 1.9.0
Sidecars
events · events.json · channels · eeg.json
Provenance
Machine-readable
Mirrors

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