---
pretty_name: "EEG data during three near-threshold visual detection tasks: a no-cue task, a noninformative cue task (50% validity), and an informative cue task (100% validity)"
license: cc0-1.0
tags:
  - eeg
  - neuroscience
  - eegdash
  - brain-computer-interface
  - pytorch
  - visual
  - attention
size_categories:
  - n<1K
task_categories:
  - other
---

# EEG data during three near-threshold visual detection tasks: a no-cue task, a noninformative cue task (50% validity), and an informative cue task (100% validity)

**Dataset ID:** `ds006171`

_Melcon2025_

**Canonical aliases:** `Melcon2024`

> **At a glance:** EEG · Visual attention · healthy · 36 subjects · 104 recordings · CC0

## Load this dataset

This repo is a **pointer**. The raw EEG data lives at its canonical source
(OpenNeuro / NEMAR); [EEGDash](https://github.com/eegdash/EEGDash) streams it
on demand and returns a PyTorch / braindecode dataset.

```python
# pip install eegdash
from eegdash import EEGDashDataset

ds = EEGDashDataset(dataset="ds006171", cache_dir="./cache")
print(len(ds), "recordings")
```

You can also load it by canonical alias — these are registered classes in `eegdash.dataset`:

```python
from eegdash.dataset import Melcon2024
ds = Melcon2024(cache_dir="./cache")
```

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

```python
from braindecode.datasets import BaseConcatDataset
ds = BaseConcatDataset.pull_from_hub("EEGDash/ds006171")
```


## Dataset metadata

| | |
|---|---|
| **Subjects** | 36 |
| **Recordings** | 104 |
| **Tasks (count)** | 3 |
| **Channels** | 144 (×104) |
| **Sampling rate (Hz)** | 1024 (×104) |
| **Total duration (h)** | 40.9 |
| **Size on disk** | 67.8 GB |
| **Recording type** | EEG |
| **Experimental modality** | Visual |
| **Paradigm type** | Attention |
| **Population** | Healthy |
| **Source** | openneuro |
| **License** | CC0 |

## Links

- **DOI:** [10.18112/openneuro.ds006171.v1.0.0](https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds006171.v1.0.0)
- **OpenNeuro:** [ds006171](https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds006171)
- **Browse 700+ datasets:** [EEGDash catalog](https://huggingface.co/spaces/EEGDash/catalog)
- **Docs:** <https://eegdash.org>
- **Code:** <https://github.com/eegdash/EEGDash>

---

_Auto-generated from [dataset_summary.csv](https://github.com/eegdash/EEGDash/blob/main/eegdash/dataset/dataset_summary.csv) and the [EEGDash API](https://data.eegdash.org/api/eegdash/datasets/summary/ds006171). Do not edit this file by hand — update the upstream source and re-run `scripts/push_metadata_stubs.py`._