EEGdashNeMARON005574
Iss. 5574 · 9 subjects · 9 recordings · CC0
Dataset Brief · The "Podcast" ECoG dataset

ON005574: ieeg dataset, 9 subjects#

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset

Access recordings and metadata through EEGDash.

Citation: Zaid Zada, Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Ariel Goldstein, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang, Liat Hasenfratz, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Lucia Melloni, Sasha Devore, Orrin Devinsky, Adeen Flinker, Uri Hasson (—). The “Podcast” ECoG dataset. 10.82901/nemar.on005574

Modality: ieeg Subjects: 9 Recordings: 9 License: CC0 Source: nemar

Metadata: Complete (100%)

9-participant iEEG dataset — The "Podcast" ECoG dataset.

iEEG · 124, 91, 205, 178, 264, 167, 138, 114, 174 ch512 Hz · mixedBIDS 1.10.0Task · podcast
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 ON005574

dataset = ON005574(cache_dir="./data")
# Get the raw object of the first recording
raw = dataset.datasets[0].raw
print(raw.info)

Filter by subject

dataset = ON005574(cache_dir="./data", subject="01")

Advanced query

dataset = ON005574(
    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{on005574,
  title = {The "Podcast" ECoG dataset},
  author = {Zaid Zada and Samuel A. Nastase and Bobbi Aubrey and Itamar Jalon and Ariel Goldstein and Sebastian Michelmann and Haocheng Wang and Liat Hasenfratz and Werner Doyle and Daniel Friedman and Patricia Dugan and Lucia Melloni and Sasha Devore and Orrin Devinsky and Adeen Flinker and Uri Hasson},
  doi = {10.82901/nemar.on005574},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.on005574},
}
§ 02Study · The README

About This Dataset#

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural story listening.

We introduce the “Podcast” electrocorticography (ECoG) dataset for modeling neural activity supporting natural narrative comprehension. This dataset combines the exceptional spatiotemporal resolution of human intracranial electrophysiology with a naturalistic experimental paradigm for language comprehension. In addition to the raw data, we provide a minimally preprocessed version in the high-gamma spectral band to showcase a simple pipeline and to make it easier to use. Furthermore, we include the auditory stimuli, an aligned word-level transcript, and linguistic features ranging from low-level acoustic properties to large language model (LLM) embeddings. We also include tutorials replicating previous findings and serve as a pedagogical resource and a springboard for new research. The dataset comprises 9 participants with 1,330 electrodes, including grid, depth, and strip electrodes. The participants listened to a 30-minute story with over 5,000 words. By using a natural story with high-fidelity, invasive neural recordings, this dataset offers a unique opportunity to investigate language comprehension.

DOI

§ 03Cohort · Participants

Cohort#

Dataset Statistics#

Channel counts (ch)

91114124138167174178205264

Sampling frequencies (Hz)

5122048

Total recording duration: 4 h 29 min

§ 04Signal · Electrodes & trace

Signal · Electrodes & live trace#

Fig. 01 Signal & montage 124, 91, 205, 178, 264, 167, 138, 114, 174 ch · iEEG · 512 Hz · mixed · 9 subjects, 9 recordings
Live trace viewer — sub-04 · task-podcast

Showing one representative recording out of 9 subjects and 9 recordings in this dataset. Browse the full set on OpenNeuro; drop any other _ieeg.{set,edf,bdf,vhdr} file onto the viewer (or pass ?ieeg=<url>) to inspect it.

Electrode layout — iEEG · 188 sensors — 188 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 — ON005574
§ 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

ON005574

Title

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset

Author (year)

Canonical

Importable as

ON005574

Year

Authors

Zaid Zada, Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Ariel Goldstein, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang, Liat Hasenfratz, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Lucia Melloni, Sasha Devore, Orrin Devinsky, Adeen Flinker, Uri Hasson

License

CC0

Citation / DOI

10.82901/nemar.on005574

Source links

OpenNeuro | NeMAR | Source URL

Copy-paste BibTeX
@dataset{on005574,
  title = {The "Podcast" ECoG dataset},
  author = {Zaid Zada and Samuel A. Nastase and Bobbi Aubrey and Itamar Jalon and Ariel Goldstein and Sebastian Michelmann and Haocheng Wang and Liat Hasenfratz and Werner Doyle and Daniel Friedman and Patricia Dugan and Lucia Melloni and Sasha Devore and Orrin Devinsky and Adeen Flinker and Uri Hasson},
  doi = {10.82901/nemar.on005574},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.on005574},
}
§ 06API · Programmatic access

API Reference#

Signature
eegdash.dataset
class
eegdash.dataset.ON005574(cache_dir, query=None, s3_bucket=None, **kwargs)
Bases: EEGDashDataset
Author (year)
Canonical
Importable asON005574
Sourceeegdash/dataset/registry.py · [source ↗]
class eegdash.dataset.ON005574(cache_dir: str, query: dict | None = None, s3_bucket: str | None = None, **kwargs)[source]#

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset

Study:

on005574 (NeMAR)

Author (year):

Canonical:

Also importable as: ON005574.

Modality: ieeg; Subject type: Unknown. Subjects: 9; recordings: 9; 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/on005574 NeMAR dataset: https://nemar.org/dataexplorer/detail?dataset_id=on005574 DOI: https://doi.org/10.82901/nemar.on005574

Examples

>>> from eegdash.dataset import ON005574
>>> dataset = ON005574(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 descriptorON005574.croissant.json (MLCommons schema, ingestible by PyTorch / TensorFlow / JAX).mlcommons
Examples using EEGDashcurated · start here

Swap any load_dataset(...) call for on005574 to reproduce the tutorial on this dataset.

Citation

Zaid Zada, Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Ariel Goldstein, … (n.d.). The "Podcast" ECoG dataset. 10.82901/nemar.on005574

Provenance

¹Contributed to nemar in BIDS format.

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

³Persistent identifier: 10.82901/nemar.on005574.

BIDS
BIDS 1.10.0
Sidecars
channels
Provenance
Machine-readable
Mirrors

See Also#