SpanishBCBL: Brain Activity During Typing (MEG & EEG)

35 healthy adult volunteers performed typing tasks while their brain activity was recorded with magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG). This dataset underlies the Brain2Qwerty research and a companion neuroscience study published in 2025. Data was collected at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL).

Use Cases

• Train brain activity decoders for typing based on non-invasive MEG/EEG signals.
• Study the neural dynamics of motor planning and execution during a memorized typing task.
• Benchmark models for neural signal processing and time-series analysis in a multimodal context.
• Investigate the relationship between brain activity and language production in a controlled motor task.

Strengths

• Includes data from 35 participants, a moderate sample size for neuroimaging studies.
• Provides concurrent MEG and EEG recordings, offering complementary neural signal modalities.
• Specifically designed for research on typing, a common and structured motor task.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)

Collection Method

Non-invasive brain recordings (MEG and EEG) of participants typing briefly-memorized sentences.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-29 11:56:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data was collected at the BCBL in San Sebastián, Spain.