This is a list of openly available electrophysiological data, including EEG, MEG, ECoG/iEEG, and LFP data.
Datasets and resources listed here should all be openly-accessible for research purposes, requiring, at most, registration for access. Be sure to check the license and/or usage agreements for any datasets you access.
To contribute a new link to a data source or resource, open an issue mentioning it, or a pull request with a link.
There are several repositories, journals, and search engines that can be checked and searched for relevant datasets.
There are a few general purpose repositories that you can search for data:
- Zenodo hosts datasets for individual studies. You can find available datasets by searching for 'eeg', 'meg', or similar, and selecting the 'Dataset' tag on the bottom left of the search page.
- Open Science Framework is a platform for supporting open science, and includes, amongst other things, data hosting of open-datasets for specific studies. It doesn't seem to be easily searchable by data modality in particular, does does host relevant data, some of which are included in the listings below.
- Figshare is a general repository service for a broad range of materials, and includes datasets. You can search for a data type, or other specifier, and the select 'type' as 'Dataset' to see available datasets.
- Dryad is a repository service for scientific datasets, and includes data linked to specific papers, that is searchable, and includes some EEG/MEG/ECoG datasets.
- G-Node Open Data is a repository service for scientific datasets, by G-Node (the German Neuroinformatics Node), built on their G-Node data infrastructure services.
- Kaggle is a private company that hosts data analysis competition. These competitions typically release a dataset for us, and they also maintain a repository of available datasets.
- OpenNeuro is a free and open platform for analyzing and sharing neuroimaging data. It is currently more focused on MRI datasets, but includes at least one EEG-fMRI dataset, and may expand to include more electrophysiology data.
- Neurodata Without Borders, or NWB, is a data standard for neurophysiology, to promote a common standard for storing, sharing, and archiving data. Though not exactly a general repository, they do also maintain a list of publicly released NWB datasets.
There are journals that specifically describe openly available datasets, and/or mandate that data be openly released, including:
- Scientific Data
- A general purpose journal that publishes brief reports on openly available datasets
- Data in Brief
- A general purpose journal that publishes brief reports on openly available datasets
- GigaScience
- A general topic journal that publishes papers for which all associated data must be made available
- Data is uploaded to their GigaDB database, that is searchable
Google has a dataset search tool that can be used to search for datasets.
Openly available electroencephalography (EEG) datasets and large-scale projects with EEG data.
The ChildMind Institute is a non-profit that, amongst other things, is involved in large-scale research projects that release large datasets.
A large project including rest and task EEG data across a large adult cohort (n=~1000).
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
A project including rest and task EEG data across a young cohort, ages 6-44 (n=126).
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
Physionet is an archive of physiology data, and includes some EEG data under the 'neuroelectric' tag.
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
Available datasets include:
- EEG Motor Movement / Imagery (n=109): Data
PREDICT is a repository for EEG data, focused on patient data (collected in research settings).
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
A large collection of EEG recorded in clinical settings (hospital data).
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
EEGbase is a database for electrophysiological data.
Note: you first need to register, and then the website has a 'Add to Cart' & 'Complete Order' workflow, but the datasets are free.
Available datasets include:
- ERP Dataset, Visual P300 Paradigm (n=20):
Paper
- Note that this data is also available on GigaDB
- ERP OddBall Design, Number Guessing Game (n=250): Paper
- ERP dataset on Developmental Coordination Disorder (n=32): Paper
- EEG activity using a driving simulator (n=15): Paper
NITRC is a general purpose repository community board for neuroimaging tools, resources, and datasets. In general, is has more tools than datasets listed, and there is nothing specific to EEG about it, but it does contain some available EEG datasets.
Available datasets include:
- Visual Oddball Task (n=18): Data - Paper
- Categorization Task (n=14): Data
- Resting State fMRI/EEG (n=8): Data
ERP-CORE (Compendium of Open Resources and Experiments) is a resource with experiment paradigms and scripts, example data & example processing scripts for ERPs, including the N170, mismatch negativity (MMN), N2pc, N400, P3, lateralized readiness potential (LRP), and error-related negativity (ERN).
A collection of BCI related EEG datasets.
MASS is a collection of whole night sleep recordings from approximately 200 participants, from hospital based sleep laboratories.
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
NSRR is a resource offering large collections of physiological signals, including polysomnography recordings with EEG from research studies and clinical collections.
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
The following are datasets collected with research EEG systems:
- Motor Imagery BCI Data (n=52): Data - Paper
- Simultaneous EEG & NIRS during cognitive tasks (n=26): Data - Paper
- EEG during grasp and lift (n=12): Data - Paper
- EEG, MEG & fMRI data with perceptual task (n=19): Data - Paper
- EEG data with TMS with visual perception task (n=16): Data - Paper
- EEG with Motion Capture during treadmill walking (n=8): Data - Paper
- EEG data with a visual spatial attention task (n=45): Data - Paper
- EEG data with a visual working memory task, ERP design (n=104): Data - Paper
- EEG data with a visual working memory task, CDA design (n=76): Data - Paper
- EEG data with a covert visual spatial attention task (n=50): Data - Paper
- OpenMIIR: EEG data during music perception and imagination (n=10): Home Page - Data
- EEG data from subjects napping after a working memory task (n=22): Data - Paper
- DEAP: Database for Emotion Analysis, EEG data + video recording, while watching videos (n=32): Data - Paper
- A collection of EEG tasks with speech studies (n=84, split across 5 tasks): Data - Paper
- EEG recordings with concurrent EMG while doing everyday tasks (n=27): Data
- Multi-modal (EEG, EMG, EOG) recordings during movement tasks (n=25): Data - Paper
- EEG BCI recordings during mental imagery, across sessions & interaction paradigms (n=13): Data - Paper
- EEG resting state data, with MRI anatomical scans (n=12) Data - Paper
- Multi-day, multi band SSVEP dataset for BCI applications (n=30): Data - Paper
- Multi-day, dataset from sleep (naps) recorded after visual working memory task (n=22): Data - Paper
- EEG dataset from subjects viewing images (n=24): Data - Paper
The following are available datasets collected with consumer EEG systems:
- MNIST of Brain Data from MindBigData (n=1 with 1.2 million trials): Data
- ImageNet of the Brain from MindBigData (n=1 with 70,000 trials): Data
There are some other lists of available EEG data, including:
- A publicly curated list list of EEG data
- The SCCN list of public EEG data
Openly available magnetoencephalography (MEG) datasets and large-scale projects with MEG data.
OMEGA is a open-access repository for MEG data, in which individual researchers can deposit their data.
The Human-Connectome Project is a large, multi-site project, mostly focused on MRI, but includes a subset of MEG data.
CAMCAN includes task & rest data from a large cohort, balanced in age from age 18-88 (n=652).
- Classification of Multimodal Stimulus Presentation - Visual & Auditory (n=52): Data - Paper
- Multi-subject, multimodal face processing dataset including fMRI, MEG, EEG (n=16): Data - Paper
- Decaf dataset, movie clip watching (n=30): Data
This section contains intracranal data from humans participants (only ever collected in clinical contexts), including electrocorticography (ECoG) datasets which is sometimes also referred to as intracranial EEG (iEEG) or stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG), as well as any available human single unit data.
The MNI Open iEEG atlas is a repository of iEEG data from a multi-center collection project (n=106).
iEEG.org is an NIH supported repository of intracranial EEG data.
The cognitive electrophysiology data portal has a list of publications that have available electrophysiological data.
The 'Restoring Active Memory' project is coordinate collection of ECoG data, with memory tasks (n=251).
A collection a 16 tasks across a group of ECoG patients (n=250).
Available datasets with single unit data from humans:
- Human single units with a declarative memory task (n=59): Data - Paper - Associated Code
- Human single units with a verbal working memory task (n=9): Data - Paper
Openly available animal datasets with local field potential (LFP) data, include multi-electrode arrays, animal ECoG, single-units, or similar recordings.
NeuroTycho is as collection of mostly monkey ECoG data.
A collection of data, mostly animal models, including extra-cellular recordings, and some animal model ECoG & iEEG.
Home Page - Data Portal - Paper
This contains electrophysiological datasets collected from rodents in the Buzsáki lab.
Home Page - Buzsáki lab website
The following are available individual LFP datasets: