Memory Study

Description:

The focus of this study is to explore the differences in memory between the elderly and young. Subjects have to indicate, with button presses, if the current image presented on the screen was presented earlier.

Summary:

Number of Sessions: 3
Number of Subjects: 3
Type of Subject Groups: young, normal
All subjects are considered healthy and normal: Yes
Number of Channels (min to max): 256 to 256
Recorded Modalities: EEG (BioSemi)
Total Size: 10.8 GB
License Type: CC0

Publications:

Swann N., Onton J., Makeig S., Single-Trial EEG changes associated with specific behavioral contexts in a Two-Back Task. Poster session presented to Society for Neuroscience; 2007 Nov; San Diego, CA.
publications/TwobackPosterMini.pdf
Onton, J., Makeig, S., Information-based modeling of event-related brain dynamics. In C. Neuper, W. Klimesch (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research, 2006, Vol.159 (pp. 99-120).
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)59007-7

Experimenters:

Julie Onton (Principal Experimenter)

Table of Session Information:

Session Purpose Lab Id Subject EEG Sampling Rate (Hz) Notes EEG Recordings Channel Locations Number of Channels Channel Location Type
Lab Id Group Gender YOB Age Hand
1 data collection 105

8

young

M

1982

22

right

 256 D27 unstable; otherwise clean EEG session/1/eeg_recording_1.bdf

session/1/channel_locations.elp

 256

10-20
2 data collection 106

6

young

M

1981

23

right

 256 B19 unstable; B16 unstable off and on session/2/eeg_recording_1.bdf

session/2/channel_locations.elp

 256

10-20
3 NA NA

10

normal

F

1949

64

right

 256 D8 and C24 unstable; H19 noisy; F5 and F11 noisy session/3/eeg_recording_1.bdf session/3/eeg_recording_2.bdf

session/3/channel_locations.elp

 256

10-20

Study Paradigm and Context

Description Tag
Subjects were seated in front of a computer monitor with a response pad in their laps that was held with both hands, while performing the task. Context/Sitting

Table of Event Codes:

Event Code Condition
Label Description Tag
1 'match' response press the right button on the response pad to indicate that the image currently on the screen is the same from the image they saw prior Response/Button press
5 non-target images without the white airplane target Stimulus/Visual, Stimulus/Onset, Stimulus/Expected/Non-Target
6 target frames images of with the white airplane target Stimulus/Visual, Stimulus/Onset, Stimulus/Target

Contact:

For data results or more information regarding this study contact: Julie Onton
phone: [use FIRSTNAME from above]@sccn.ucsd.edu
phone: 619-767-4769

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This data was recorded under the approval of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the University of California, San Diego (#031151).