Open multi-center intracranial electroencephalography dataset with task probing conscious visual perception
We introduce an intracranial EEG (iEEG) dataset collected as part of an adversarial collaboration between proponents of two theories of consciousness: Global Neuronal Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory. The data were recorded from 38 patients undergoing intracranial monitoring of epileptic seizures across three research centers using the same experimental protocol. Participants were presented with suprathreshold visual stimuli belonging to four different categories (faces, objects, letters, false fonts) in three orientations (front, left, right view), and for three durations (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 s). Participants engaged in a non-speeded Go/No-Go target detection task to identify infrequent targets with some stimuli becoming task-relevant and others task-irrelevant. Participants also engaged in a motor localizer task. The data were checked for its quality and converted to Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS). The de-identified dataset contains demographics, clinical information, electrode reconstruction, behavioral performance, and eye-tracking data. We also provide code to preprocess and analyze the data. This dataset holds promise for reuse in consciousness science and vision neuroscience to answer questions related to stimulus processing, target detection, and task-relevance, among many others.
Authors
- Patricia Dugan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6199-1870)
- Orrin Devinsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0044-4632)
- Fatemeh Taheriyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6988-8103)
- Lucía Melloni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-5071)
- Marcelo Armendáriz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-1104)
- Diptyajit Das (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-6114)
- Leyao Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8998-1545)
- Katarina Bendtz
- Wendell Lake
- Michael Pitts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9824-3443)
- Sasha Devore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2554-1850)
- Praveen Sripad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6361-2571)
- Liad Mudrik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3564-6445)
- David Mazumder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5609-7505)
- Alex Lepauvre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4191-1578)
- Csaba Kozma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1894-4611)
- Tanya Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6515-9715)
- Urszula Górska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-337X)
- Stephanie Montenegro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-4156)
- Simon Henin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0997-3266)
- Jay Jeschke
- Adeen Flinker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-1283)
- Daniel Friedman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1068-1797)
- Rony Hirschhorn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7710-5159)
- Werner Doyle
- Gabriel Kreiman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3505-8475)
- Niccolò Bonacchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5228-6918)
- Mélanie Boly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9584-0907)
- Alia Seedat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5119-9966)
- Erika Jensen
- Kyle Kahraman
Institutions
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CA)
- Champalimaud Foundation (PT)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (DE)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- ISPA - Instituto Universitário (PT)
- Reed College (US)
- New York University (US)
- Newcastle University (GB)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Scientific Data
- Published
- 2025-05-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04833-z
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.72
Funders
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Templeton World Charity Foundation