Participant Overview for Motor Cortex Electrophysiology Study

A participant overview table for a neuroscience study, last updated on 2026-05-07. The dataset, shared by Sophia Gimple under a CC-BY-4.0 license, contains metadata on participants' demographics, handedness, and details of implanted electrocorticography (ECoG) grids over motor and sensory cortices. It distinguishes between participants who executed and attempted movement.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic correlations with motor task performance based on age and gender variables.
• Comparing electrode grid specifications and their potential impact on signal quality based on manufacturer, inter-electrode distance, and diameter.
• Investigating differences in neural activity between executed and attempted movement based on the participant grouping indicated in the description.
• Assessing channel coverage over primary motor (M1) and sensory (S1) cortices for spatial analysis of recorded signals.

Strengths

• Provides a clear distinction between participants who executed versus attempted movement, a key experimental variable.
• Includes multiple technical specifications for implanted electrode grids, such as inter-electrode distance and exposed electrode diameter.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a small participant cohort.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Sophia Gimple.

Collection Method

Likely collected as part of a clinical or research study involving electrocorticography (ECoG) recordings.

Time Range

The recording time is not specified; the dataset provides age at the time of recording.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 17:42:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Geographic coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.