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Strong drift over time resulting in higher jitter. Only possible to compare ERP acquired within the same experimental conditions when latency is not corrected.\n\nSignal Processing\n-----------------\n  Classifiers: xDAWN, Riemannian\n  Feature extraction: Covariance/Riemannian, xDAWN\n  Spatial filters: xDAWN\n\nPerformance (Original Study)\n----------------------------\n\nBCI Application\n---------------\n  Applications: gaming\n  Environment: laboratory\n  Online feedback: True\n\nTags\n----\n  Pathology: Healthy\n  Modality: Visual\n  Type: Perception\n\nDocumentation\n-------------\n  Description: EEG recordings of 25 subjects testing the Brain Invaders, a visual P300 Brain-Computer Interface inspired by the famous vintage video game Space Invaders\n  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2649006\n  Associated paper DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2649006\n  License: CC-BY-4.0\n  Investigators: G.F.P. Van Veen, A. Barachant, A. Andreev, G. Cattan, P. Rodrigues, M. Congedo\n  Senior author: M. Congedo\n  Institution: GIPSA-lab, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble INP\n  Address: GIPSA-lab, 11 rue des Mathématiques, Grenoble Campus BP46, F-38402, France\n  Country: FR\n  Repository: Zenodo\n  Data URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2649006\n  Publication year: 2019\n  Acknowledgements: All subjects were volunteers recruited by means of flyers and of the mailing list of the University of Grenoble-Alpes. All participants provided written informed consent confirming the notification of the experimental process, the data management procedures and the right to withdraw from the experiment at any moment.\n  Keywords: Electroencephalography (EEG), P300, Brain-Computer Interface, Experiment\n\nAbstract\n--------\nWe describe the experimental procedures for a dataset that we have made publicly available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2649006 in mat and csv formats. This dataset contains electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings of 25 subjects testing the Brain Invaders (1), a visual P300 Brain-Computer Interface inspired by the famous vintage video game Space Invaders (Taito, Tokyo, Japan). The visual P300 is an event-related potential elicited by a visual stimulation, peaking 240-600 ms after stimulus onset. EEG data were recorded by 16 electrodes in an experiment that took place in the GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France, in 2012 (2,3). Python code for manipulating the data is available at https://github.com/plcrodrigues/py.BI.EEG.2012-GIPSA. The ID of this dataset is BI.EEG.2012-GIPSA.\n\nMethodology\n-----------\nThe visual P300 is an event-related potential (ERP) elicited by a visual stimulation, peaking 240-600 ms after stimulus onset. The experiment features a training-test mode of operation and both a longitudinal and transversal design. Training session: Target alien chosen randomly at each repetition, 8 Targets total, 8 repetitions each, resulting in 128 Target trials and 640 non-Target flashes. Online session: consisted of three levels with different distractor configurations, minimum 3.5 minutes per level, counter-balanced order across subjects. Interface: 36 aliens flashing in 12 groups of 6, each repetition has 12 flashes (2 Target, 10 non-Target). P300 peak latency: 240-600 ms post-stimulus.\n\nReferences\n----------\nVan Veen, G., Barachant, A., Andreev, A., Cattan, G., Rodrigues, P. C., & Congedo, M. (2019). Building Brain Invaders: EEG data of an experimental validation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05182.\nAppelhoff, S., Sanderson, M., Brooks, T., Vliet, M., Quentin, R., Holdgraf, C., Chaumon, M., Mikulan, E., Tavabi, K., Hochenberger, R., Welke, D., Brunner, C., Rockhill, A., Larson, E., Gramfort, A. and Jas, M. (2019). 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