Published April 15, 2026 | Version v1
Dataset Open

Modality-specific predictive templates in pre-stimulus EEG activity

  • 1. ROR icon Leiden University
  • 2. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, San Diego
  • 4. Université Paris-Saclay

Description

The dataset includes raw EEG recordings collected during a perceptual decision-making task involving anticipatory cues for auditory and visual stimuli.

Folder Structure

The dataset is organized by participant:

[participant ID]/
    participantID_calib_000[block number].eeg
    participantID_calib_000[block number].vhdr
    participantID_calib_000[block number].vmrk
        ...
    participantID_test_000[block number].eeg
    participantID_test_000[block number].vhdr
    participantID_test_000[block number].vmrk
        ...

Description

  • Each folder contains all data for a single participant (whose ID is the folder name).
  • Each participant completed two phases:
    • calibXXXX: calibration phase
    • testXXXX: main experimental phase
  • Each phase contains multiple recording blocks: 4 calibration bloacks and 3 test blocks

Data Format

EEG data are stored in BrainVision format, consisting of three files per recording:

  • .eeg → raw signal data
  • .vhdr → header file (metadata, channel info, sampling rate)
  • .vmrk → marker file (event triggers)

These files should always be kept together.

 

Recording Parameters

  • Sampling rate: 1000 Hz
  • Number of channels: 32
  • Electrode layout: standard 10–20 system
  • Reference: FCz

Relevant event markers

Marker Description
1 Visual cue onset
2 Auditory cue onset
11 Visual stimulus onset
12 Auditory stimulus onset
13 Neutral cue onset (beginning of the pre-stimulus period in uncued settings) 
1001 Right response onset
1002 Left response onset
1003 Time out response

Recommended tools

We recommend using Python MNE to visualize and process this raw data.

Analysis code

The code used to analyze this data is available on GitHub.

Files

all_participants.zip

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Additional details

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/IsabHox/AnticipatoryModality
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active