BCI ReportDatasets
Every published figure measured on each dataset, with its cohort, interval and source page. No raw recording is redistributed.
The open register: every EEG dataset we know of, and how far we checked it (488 rows) →
| Dataset | Task | People | Appears in | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ds003810 | Motor imagery / rest | 10 | 7 groups | CC0-1.0 |
| EEGMAT | Mental arithmetic / rest | 36 | 9 groups | Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0 |
| BETA | 40-target SSVEP | 70 | 8 groups | CC BY 4.0 |
| ds006593 | P300 target ERP | 21 | 3 groups | CC0-1.0 |
| TMNRED / ds005383 | Semantic target ERP | 30 | 3 groups | OpenNeuro metadata says CC0; accompanying publication/GitHub says CC BY 4.0 |
| EESM19 scalp subset | Five-stage sleep | 20 | 4 groups | CC0-1.0 declared by upstream and mirror |
| ds005342 | Cue-gated idle / command | 4 | 3 groups | CC0-1.0 |
| Wearable SSVEP BCI dataset (dry and wet electrodes) | 12-target SSVEP, dry and wet electrodes | 102 | 4 groups | CC BY 4.0 |
| Mobile BCI dataset (SSVEP and ERP paradigms) | SSVEP and ERP while standing, walking and running | 17 / 23 / 24 | 3 groups | CC BY 4.0 |
| EESM23 · Ear-EEG Sleep Monitoring 2023 | Five-stage sleep, in-ear and scalp | 10 | 1 group | CC0-1.0 |
| EEG Alpha Waves dataset | Eyes open / eyes closed | 19 | 1 group | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Phantom EEG with motion, muscle and eye artifacts | Physical head phantom with motion, muscle and eye artifacts | — | 1 group | CC0-1.0 |
| OpenNeuro ds004584 · Parkinson's disease, rest eyes open | Resting-state EEG, Parkinson's disease and controls | 149 | 1 group | CC0-1.0 |
| Cattan PC/VR P300 dataset | P300 on a PC screen and in a VR headset | 21 | 1 group | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Multimodal gait dataset · treadmill walking | Treadmill walking at three speeds | 58 | 1 group | CC-BY-4.0 |
| YSU asynchronous SSVEP-BCI dataset | Asynchronous SSVEP, control and non-control states | 4 / 20 | 2 groups | CC-BY-4.0 |
| LTRSVP · EEG Signals from an RSVP Task | P300 target images in rapid serial visual presentation at three rates | 9 | 1 group | Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0 |
| Dreem Open Datasets (DOD-H and DOD-O) | Five-stage sleep staging, healthy sleepers and people with obstructive sleep apnoea, kept apart | 25 / 55 | 2 groups | MIT |
| OpenBMI motor imagery (Lee et al. 2019) | Motor imagery: left or right hand across two sessions, and imagery or rest | 51 | 2 groups | CC0-1.0 |
| BOAS · Bitbrain Open Access Sleep dataset | Overnight sleep, six polysomnography EEG channels, human-consensus stages | 100 | 2 groups | CC0-1.0 |
| WBCIC-SHU motor imagery dataset | Motor imagery across three recording sessions: two-class and three-class cohorts, kept apart | 11 / 51 | 2 groups | CC BY 4.0 |
| Longitudinal ERP dataset (RSVP) | RSVP face-target ERP, the same people at nominal Day 1, 7, 80 and 200 visits | 15 | 1 group | CC0-1.0 |
| Forenzo & He continuous-tracking EEG-BCI dataset | Continuous cursor tracking with a noninvasive BCI, across sessions | — | 4 groups | CC BY 4.0 |
| Orthosis error-detection dataset (Kueper et al. 2024) | Injected orthosis device errors against standard device events, EEG only: one cohort in three configurations | 8 | 3 groups | CC BY 4.0 |
| BINGO cross-linguistic inner-speech dataset | Inner speech of 15 matched nouns in Greek and in English, across people and languages | — | 1 group | No licence stated |
| EEG-fNIRS-based Handwriting Trajectory Dataset | Four released coded labels in an imagined-handwriting competition dataset, EEG only: a data-quality and methods case study | 5 | 1 group | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| REFED emotion dataset (EEG-fNIRS) | Self-reported valence and arousal while watching videos: a stored-clip diagnostic | — | 1 group | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| Bak et al. fNIRS finger- and foot-tapping dataset | Human fNIRS: right-hand, left-hand and foot tapping, a person left out at a time | 30 | 1 group | CC BY 4.0 |
| MC_RTT (Neural Latents Benchmark) | One macaque’s motor-cortex spiking during self-paced reaching: finger velocity | — | 1 group | CC BY 4.0 |
| OpenNeuro ds007420 · multi-distance fNIRS | Human fNIRS recordings: a numerical coverage check, no decoding | 12 | 1 group | CC0-1.0 |
| Shin2022 · closed-loop motor imagery EEG (Figshare 20383716) | Closed-loop cursor control: the instructed right or left target, dry electrodes | 10 | 1 group | CC BY 4.0 |
| Kim beta-range SSVEP · 40 targets, 14.0–21.8 Hz (Figshare 28806815) | 40-target SSVEP speller, 14.0 to 21.8 Hz | 40 | 1 group | CC BY 4.0 |
BOAS is published with three stated gaps: its consent statement does not say whether participants agreed to public sharing or secondary use; its ethics and consent statements come only from the publisher, and no peer-reviewed paper describes it; its ethics reference was added in version 1.1.1 with no approval date. Its page states them in full, with the credit.
These have no page of their own; each row links the section that publishes its results.
| Dataset | Task | Results | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| IESSEEG ↗ | Case/control discrimination from one awake minute of EEG per person | Clinical groups: IESSEEG | CC BY 4.0 |
| MIND ↗ | Four-class directional motor imagery of the right upper limb with EEG and fNIRS; here the EEG of stored codes 4 versus 5 and 6 versus 7. | Data quality: MIND | CC BY 4.0 · CC BY-NC 4.0, as its sources state them |
| eldBETA ↗ | Nine-target SSVEP selection by older adults, recorded in seven blocks per person. | Data quality: eldBETA | CC BY 4.0 |
| ASEEG ↗ | Case/control discrimination from resting EEG, beside age and sex | Clinical groups: ASEEG | CC BY 4.0 |
Sources reviewed or considered for the core matrix that carry no result in any release.
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Clear CC0 snapshot plus dataset-specific ethics and signed-consent evidence; aggregate-only publication materially limits privacy exposure.
Attribution license and study-specific approval/consent are documented; eligibility assumes aggregate-only output and exclusion of subject-info fields.
Clear upstream CC0 and study ethics evidence; use only the pinned scalp-signal derivative and publish aggregates, with provenance disclosed. Consent covered the study, not publication; the public release rests on a GDPR anonymization assessment (amended 2026-09-22).
Eligible only under the stated personal, research-led, noncommercial operation. Any ads, sponsorship, fees, or use directed toward commercial advantage requires fresh review or permission.
Small clinical cohort and linked health attributes create disproportionate reidentification risk; aggregate-only output does not resolve the missing secondary-publication consent evidence.
License permits only noncommercial unadapted redistribution, and the consent/ethics chain for public secondary results remains unverified.
Ethics evidence is positive, but upstream license and the processed mirror's authority to apply CC BY remain unresolved.
Strong study-specific open-sharing evidence. Aggregate metrics avoid redistribution of stimulus text and participant metadata; credit under CC BY.
Pinned CC0 release with dataset-specific IRB and consent evidence and comparatively low metadata exposure.
Reuse license is clear, but the dataset-specific human-subject consent and ethics chain is not evidenced strongly enough for a new public benchmark release.
Per-dataset license is verified, but consent evidence and the application of ND to the planned publication pipeline should be clarified.
Per-dataset license is verified, but consent evidence and the application of ND to the planned publication pipeline should be clarified.
Eligible only as an aggregate-only case study: remove all participant IDs/results and condition breakdowns, label n=4 prominently, avoid subgroup claims, and make no claim that the cohort is anonymous.