Introduction

This document provides guidance and detailed information on the datasets released by COGITATE, how to access them, the directory structure, and a description on various types of data acquired for each modality.

Updates

This is the forth version (V1.3) of the COGITATE data release document. New updates or any changes to the previous versions will be announced here, and as a versioned document here as well.

In V1.3, the Cogitate Consortium has released both the raw/unprocessed and BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) formats of fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data collected for Experiment 1.

Future Releases

Here are the items that will be released soon:

Experiment 1

  • Unprocessed/raw format of all M-EEG data (batch 1 and batch 2)

Experiment 2

  • Unprocessed/raw and BIDS formats of fMRI data
  • Unprocessed/raw and BIDS formats of M-EEG data

Previous Releases

Here is the list of previous COGITATE data release documents:

Version Data Release Document Description
v1.0 MEEG-DR-doc_2024-03-18_v1.0 MEEG (batch 1) data release document
v1.1 iEEG-DR-doc_2024-04-03_v1.1 iEEG data release document
v1.2 MEEG-Batch2-DR-doc_2024-06-10_v1.2 MEEG (batch 2) data release document

Documentation Changes

In each new version of the COGITATE data release document, relevant content for another modality/experiment is appended to the previous version, and there may be modifications made to the content of the previous versions. The list of these changes is compiled in the following documents:

Version Data Release Documentation Changes Description
v1.0 Documentation-Changes_2024-04-17_v1.0 Changes from MEEG (batch 1) data release document (v1.0) to iEEG data release document (v1.1)
v1.1 Documentation-Changes_2024-06-11_v1.1 Changes from iEEG data release document (v1.1) to MEEG (batch 2) data release document (v1.2)
v1.2 Documentation-Changes_2024-06-21_v1.2 Changes from MEEG (batch 2) data release document (v1.2) to fMRI data release document (v1.3)

Attention: M-EEG, MEEG, M/EEG, MEG/EEG or MEG might be used interchangeably throughout this document or the name of data folders, but all of them pertain to a singular data. This also applies to iEEG and ECoG (Electrocorticography).