Electroencephalogram Dataset of Visually Imagined Arabic Alphabet for Brain–Computer Interface Design and Evaluation
Visual imagery (VI) is a mental process in which an individual generates and sustains a mental image of an object without physically seeing it. Recent advancements in assistive technology have enabled the utilization of VI mental tasks as a control paradigm to design brain–computer interfaces (BCIs)...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/6/81 |
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| Summary: | Visual imagery (VI) is a mental process in which an individual generates and sustains a mental image of an object without physically seeing it. Recent advancements in assistive technology have enabled the utilization of VI mental tasks as a control paradigm to design brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) capable of generating numerous control signals. This, in turn, enables the design of control systems to assist individuals with locked-in syndrome in communicating and interacting with their environment. This paper presents an electroencephalogram (EEG) dataset captured from 30 healthy native Arabic-speaking subjects (12 females and 18 males; mean age: 20.8 years; age range: 19–23) while they visually imagined the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. Each subject conducted 10 trials per letter, resulting in 280 trials per participant and a total of 8400 trials for the entire dataset. The EEG signals were recorded using the EMOTIV Epoc X wireless EEG headset (San Francisco, CA, USA), which is equipped with 14 data electrodes and two reference electrodes arranged according to the 10–20 international system, with a sampling rate of 256 Hz. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first EEG dataset that focuses on visually imagined Arabic letters. |
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| ISSN: | 2306-5729 |