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ds004942

pretty_name: SpatialMemory
license: cc0-1.0
tags:
  - eeg
  - neuroscience
  - eegdash
  - brain-computer-interface
  - pytorch
  - visual
  - memory
  - spatialmemory
size_categories:
  - n<1K
task_categories:
  - other
authors:
  - Paul Kieffaber
  - Makenna McGill

SpatialMemory

Dataset ID: ds004942

Kieffaber2024

At a glance: EEG · Visual memory · healthy · 62 subjects · 62 recordings · CC0

Load this dataset

This repo is a pointer. The raw EEG data lives at its canonical source (OpenNeuro / NEMAR); EEGDash streams it on demand and returns a PyTorch / braindecode dataset.

# pip install eegdash
from eegdash import EEGDashDataset

ds = EEGDashDataset(dataset="ds004942", cache_dir="./cache")
print(len(ds), "recordings")

If the dataset has been mirrored to the HF Hub in braindecode's Zarr layout, you can also pull it directly:

from braindecode.datasets import BaseConcatDataset
ds = BaseConcatDataset.pull_from_hub("EEGDash/ds004942")

Dataset metadata


Subjects	62
Recordings	62
Tasks (count)	1
Channels	65 (×62)
Sampling rate (Hz)	1000 (×62)
Total duration (h)	28.3
Size on disk	25.1 GB
Recording type	EEG
Experimental modality	Visual
Paradigm type	Memory
Population	Healthy
BIDS version	1.8.0
Source	openneuro
License	CC0
NEMAR citations	1

Tasks

SpatialMemory

Upstream README

Verbatim from the dataset's authors — the canonical description.

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.

People

Authors

Paul Kieffaber
Makenna McGill (senior)

Contact

Paul Kieffaber

Provenance

Backend: s3 — s3://openneuro.org/ds004942
Exact size: 26,899,933,059 bytes (25.1 GB)
Ingested: 2026-04-06
Stats computed: 2026-04-04

Auto-generated from dataset_summary.csv and the EEGDash API. Do not edit this file by hand — update the upstream source and re-run scripts/push_metadata_stubs.py.