EEGdashNeMARNM000200
Iss. 200 · 13 subjects · 265 recordings · CC-BY-4.0
Dataset Brief · BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 hea…

NM000200: eeg dataset, 13 subjects#

BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects)

Citation: Boyla Mainsah, Chance Fleeting, Thomas Balmat, Eric Sellers, Leslie Collins (2019). BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects).

13-participant EEG dataset — BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects).

EEG · 16 ch256 HzBIDS 1.9.0Task · p300HealthyVisualAttention
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 NM000200

dataset = NM000200(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = NM000200(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = NM000200(
    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{nm000200,
  title = {BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects)},
  author = {Boyla Mainsah and Chance Fleeting and Thomas Balmat and Eric Sellers and Leslie Collins},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects).

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

BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects)

Target
├─ Sensory-event
├─ Experimental-stimulus
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BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects)

Target
     ├─ Sensory-event
     ├─ Experimental-stimulus
     ├─ Visual-presentation
     └─ Target

NonTarget
├─ Sensory-event
├─ Experimental-stimulus
├─ Visual-presentation
└─ Non-target

Paradigm-Specific Parameters

  • Detected paradigm: p300

Signal Processing

  • Feature extraction: P300_ERP_detection

Cross-Validation

  • Method: calibration-then-test

  • Evaluation type: within_subject

BCI Application

  • Applications: speller

  • Environment: laboratory

  • Online feedback: True

Tags

  • Modality: visual

  • Type: perception

Documentation

  • Description: BigP3BCI: the largest public P300 BCI dataset, containing EEG recordings from ~267 subjects across 20 studies using 6x6 or 9x8 character grids with various stimulus paradigms.

  • DOI: 10.13026/0byy-ry86

  • License: CC-BY-4.0

  • Investigators: Boyla Mainsah, Chance Fleeting, Thomas Balmat, Eric Sellers, Leslie Collins

  • Institution: Duke University; East Tennessee State University

  • Country: US

  • Repository: PhysioNet

  • Data URL: https://physionet.org/content/bigp3bci/1.0.0/

  • Publication year: 2025

References

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 1.5.0 (Mother of All BCI Benchmarks) NeuroTechX/moabb

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Age distribution by gender (n=1, range 21–21 yr, mean 21.0 yr)

20
Male · 1

Sex composition

13
subjects
Female
6
Male
7
F : M ratio
0.86 : 1
46% female · n = 13 subjects with reported sex.

Channel counts: 16 ch (n=265 recordings)

Sampling frequencies: 256.0 Hz (n=265 recordings)

Total recording duration: 7 h 24 min

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 16 ch · EEG · 256 Hz · 13 subjects, 265 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-13 · ses-0 · task-p300 · run-0

Showing one representative recording out of 13 subjects and 265 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 · 16 sensors — 16 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 — NM000200
§ 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

NM000200

Title

BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects)

Author (year)

Mainsah2025_BigP3BCI_I

Canonical

Importable as

NM000200, Mainsah2025_BigP3BCI_I

Year

2019

Authors

Boyla Mainsah, Chance Fleeting, Thomas Balmat, Eric Sellers, Leslie Collins

License

CC-BY-4.0

Citation / DOI

Unknown

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.NM000200(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)Mainsah2025_BigP3BCI_I
Canonical
Importable asNM000200 · Mainsah2025_BigP3BCI_I
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.NM000200(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects)

Study:

nm000200 (NeMAR)

Author (year):

Mainsah2025_BigP3BCI_I

Canonical:

Also importable as: NM000200, Mainsah2025_BigP3BCI_I.

Modality: eeg; Experiment type: Attention; Subject type: Healthy. Subjects: 13; recordings: 265; 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/nm000200 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=nm000200

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import NM000200
>>> dataset = NM000200(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 descriptorNM000200.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for nm000200 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Boyla Mainsah, Chance Fleeting, Thomas Balmat, Eric Sellers, Leslie Collins (2019). BigP3BCI Study I — 9x8 checkerboard/performance-based (13 healthy subjects).

Provenance

¹Contributed to nemar in BIDS format.

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

BIDS
BIDS 1.9.0
Sidecars
events · events.json · channels · eeg.json
Provenance
CC-BY-4.0 · DOI not on file
Machine-readable
Mirrors

See Also#