EEG/MEG (and fNIRS) recordings during natural speech, music and video
On this page, you can find an overview of publicly available datasets of neural recordings (mainly EEG and MEG) of participants exposed to natural, continuous stimuli: competing speech (to decode selective auditory attention), single-talker speech, music or video.
In case your publicly available dataset is not mentioned, please contact me.
Publicly available data over time
Cumulative hours (participants × minutes), by publication year of the original paper
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A. J. Power, J. J. Foxe, E.-J. Forde, R. B. Reilly, and E. C. Lalor, “At what time is the cocktail party? A late locus of selective attention to natural speech,” European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 35, pp. 1497–1503, 2012
G. M. Di Liberto, J. A. O’Sullivan, and E. C. Lalor, “Low-Frequency Cortical Entrainment to Speech Reflects Phoneme-Level Processing,” Current Biology, vol. 25, no. 19, pp. 2457–2465, 2015 and M. P. Broderick, A. J. Anderson, G. M. Di Liberto, M. J. Crosse, and E. C. Lalor, “Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Dissimilarity Reflect the Comprehension of Natural, Narrative Speech,” Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 803–809.e3, 2018
G. M. Di Liberto, J. A. O’Sullivan, and E. C. Lalor, “Low-Frequency Cortical Entrainment to Speech Reflects Phoneme-Level Processing,” Current Biology, vol. 25, no. 19, pp. 2457–2465, 2015
S. Akram, A. Presacco, J. Z. Simon, S. A. Shamma, and B. Babadi, “Robust decoding of selective auditory attention from MEG in a competing-speaker environment via state-space modeling,” NeuroImage, vol. 124, pp. 906–917, 2016
Participants
7, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
English fictional stories
Competing speech
Amount of data
6 min (2 conditions x 3 repetitions x 1 min) per participant
W. Biesmans, N. Das, T. Francart, and A. Bertrand, “Auditory-Inspired Speech Envelope Extraction Methods for Improved EEG-Based Auditory Attention Detection in a Cocktail Party Scenario,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 402–412, 2017
Participants
16, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Dutch short stories
Competing speech
Amount of data
72 min (8 trials x 6 min + 12 trials x 2 min) per participant
S. A. Fuglsang, T. Dau, and J. Hjortkjær, “Noise-robust cortical tracking of attended speech in real-world acoustic scenes,” NeuroImage, vol. 156, pp. 435–444, 2017
Participants
18, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Danish fictional stories
Competing speech
Amount of data
50 min (60 trials x 50 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female
Location of competing talkers
60/-60 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered in anechoic, mildly, and highly reverberant room
C. Brodbeck, L. E. Hong, and J. Z. Simon, “Rapid Transformation from Auditory to Linguistic Representations of Continuous Speech,” Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 24, pp. 3976–3983.e5, 2018
Participants
26, normal hearing
Stimuli
English audiobooks
Competing speech
Amount of data
16 min (4 trials x 4 repetitions x 1 min) per participant
N. H. L. Lam, A. Hultén, P. Hagoort, and J.-M. Schoffelen, "Robust neuronal oscillatory entrainment to speech displays individual variation in lateralisation," Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, no. 33, vol. 8, pp. 943-954, 2018 + various other papers
Participants
102, young, healthy
Stimuli
Dutch sentences
Single speech
Amount of data
around 8.4 min (120 sentences x 2.8-6 s) per participant
Sex of talker
female
Comments
fMRI also available. Also resting-state and reading available
J. R. Brennan, and J. T. Hale, "Hierarchical structure guides rapid linguistic predictions during naturalistic listening," PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 1, e0207741, 2019
G. Cantisani, G. Trégoat, S. Essid, G. Richard, "MAD-EEG: an EEG dataset for decoding auditory attention to a target instrument in polyphonic music," Speech, Music and Mind (SMM), Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2019, Vienna, Austria, 2019
Participants
8, young, normal hearing, non-professional musicians
Stimuli
Polyphonic music mixture (14 solos, 40 duets, 24 trios)
Music
Amount of data
30-32 min (78 stimuli x 4 repetitions x 6 s) per participant
Instruments
various instruments
Location of sources
NA
Acoustic conditions
Speakers at 45/-45 degrees, convex weighting of instruments in the mixture
Comments
EOG, EMG, ECG, head motion acceleration available / single instrument available
O. Etard, M. Kegler, C. Braiman, A.E. Forte, and T. Reichenbach, “Decoding of selective attention to continuous speech from the human auditory brainstem response,” NeuroImage, vol. 200, pp. 1-11, 2019
Participants
18, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
English audiobooks
Competing speech
Amount of data
20 min (2 trials x 4 parts x 2.5 min) per participant
O. Etard, and T. Reichenbach, "Neural speech tracking in the theta and in the delta frequency band differentially encode clarity and comprehension of speech in noise," Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 39, no. 29, pp. 5750-5759, 2019
Participants
12, young, normal-hearing
Stimuli
English audiobooks
Single speech
Amount of data
40 min (4 noise levels x 4 parts x 2.5 min) per participant
Sex of talker
male and female
Comments
4 levels of babble noise. Also EEG data of participants listening to Dutch available (0% speech comprehension)
A. Presacco, S. Miran, B. Babadi, and J. Z. Simon, “Real-Time Tracking of Magnetoencephalographic Neuromarkers during a Dynamic Attention-Switching Task,” in Proceedings of the 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 4148–4151, 2019
G. M. Di Liberto, C. Pelofi, R. Bianco, P. Patel, A. D. Mehta, J. L. Herrero, A. de Cheveigné, S. Shamma, and N. Mesgarani, "Cortical encoding of melodic expectations in human temporal cortex," eLife, vol. 9, e51784, 2020
S. A. Fuglsang, J. Märcher-Rørsted, T. Dau, J. Hjortkjær, "Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Cortical Synchronization to Competing Speech during Selective Attention," Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 2562-2572, 2020
Participants
44, 22 hearing impaired + 22 normal hearing
Stimuli
Danish audiobooks
Competing speech
Amount of data
26.7 min (32 trials x 50 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female
Location of competing talkers
90/-90 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered
Comments
single-talker, ERPs, EFRs, resting-state also available / in-ear EEG for 19 of 44 participants / EOG available
Single speech
Amount of data
13.3 min (16 trials x 50 s) per participant
Sex of talker
male and female
Comments
dual-talker, ERPs, EFRs, resting-state also available / in-ear EEG for 19 of 44 participants
F. J. Vanheusden, M. Kegler, K. Ireland, C. Georga, D. M. Simpson, T. Reichenbach, and S. L. Bell, “Hearing Aids Do Not Alter Cortical Entrainment to Speech at Audible Levels in Mild-to-Moderately Hearing-Impaired Subjects,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 14, no. 109, 2020
H. Weissbart, K. D. Kandylaki, and T. Reichenbach, “Cortical Tracking of Surprisal during Continuous Speech Comprehension,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 155–166, 2020
Participants
13, young, normal-hearing
Stimuli
English short stories
Single speech
Amount of data
40 min (15 trials x approx. 2.6 min) per participant
G. Marion, G. M. Di Liberto, and S. A. Shamma, "The Music of Silence: Part I: Responses to Musical Imagery Encode Melodic Expectations and Acoustics," Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 41, no. 35, pp. 7435-7448, 2021
Participants
21, professional musicians
Stimuli
Bach chorale melodies (4), synthesized with a Fender Rhodes sound
Music
Amount of data
20.7 min listening (44 trials x approx. 28 s) + the same amount of imagery per participant
Instruments
Fender Rhodes (monophonic)
Comments
Also a musical imagery condition (44 trials), not counted in the totals. Shared EEG is downsampled to 64 Hz
A. Mundanad Narayanan, R. Zink, and A. Bertrand, “EEG miniaturization limits for stimulus decoding with EEG sensor networks,” Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, no. 5, p. 056042, 2021
Participants
30, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Dutch fictional stories
Competing speech
Amount of data
24 min (4 trials x 6 min) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-male
Location of competing talkers
90/-90 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered
2021
Single speech
38
148.2
93.9
EEG 2-channel (FCz referenced to both earlobes), BrainVision EP-Preamp + actiCHamp
M. J. Polonenko and R. K. Maddox, "Exposing distinct subcortical components of the auditory brainstem response evoked by continuous naturalistic speech," eLife, vol. 10, e62329, 2021
Participants
38, young (18-32 years), normal hearing
Stimuli
English audiobooks, re-synthesized as "peaky" speech (and unaltered speech)
Single speech
Amount of data
128 min per experiment (120 x 64 s epochs); 3 experiments with 22, 11 and 11 participants, 6 participants took part in two experiments per participant
Sex of talker
male and female
Comments
Designed for auditory brainstem responses to speech; passive listening (no task), diotic and dichotic presentation via insert earphones
L. Straetmans, B. Holtze, S. Debener, M. Jaeger, and B. Mirkovic, “Neural tracking to go: auditory attention decoding and saliency detection with mobile EEG,” Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, no. 6, p. 066054, 2021
Participants
20, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
German audiobooks + natural salient events
Competing speech
Amount of data
30 min (6 trials x 5 min) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-male
Location of competing talkers
45/-45 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered, recorded in public cafeteria without other people
O. Etard, R. B. Messaoud, G. Gaugain, and T. Reichenbach, “No Evidence of Attentional Modulation of the Neural Response to the Temporal Fine Structure of Continuous Musical Pieces,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 411-424, 2022
Participants
17, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Music (Bach's Two-Part Inventions)
Music
Amount of data
22.4 min (7 stimuli of 11.2 min in total x 2 repetitions) per participant
L. Gwilliams, J.-R. King, A. Marantz, and D. Poeppel, "Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order," Nature Communications, 13, 6606, 2022
L. Bollens, B. Accou, H. Van hamme, and T. Francart, "SparrKULee: A Speech-Evoked Auditory Response Repository from KU Leuven, Containing the EEG of 85 Participants", Data, vol. 9, no. 8, 94, 2024
Participants
85, young, normal-hearing
Stimuli
Flemish audiobooks and podcasts
Single speech
Amount of data
130-150 min (8 -10 trials x 15 min) per participant
I. Calderón De Palma, L. S. Lopez, and A. Lopez Valdes, "Effects of spectral and temporal modulation degradation on intelligibility and cortical tracking of speech signals," Proc. Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 5192-5196, 2023
Participants
13, young (20-30 years), normal hearing
Stimuli
English audiobook ("The Old Man and the Sea"), clean and spectro-temporally degraded
Single speech
Amount of data
75 min (25 trials x 3 min) per participant
Sex of talker
male
Comments
5 conditions: clean speech, 2 spectral and 2 temporal modulation degradations. Data in CND format
2023
Single speech
67
35.9
40.1
EEG 64-channel (infants) or 128-channel (adults) EGI Geodesic Sensor Net
G. M. Di Liberto, A. Attaheri, G. Cantisani, R. B. Reilly, Á. Ní Choisdealbha, S. Rocha, P. Brusini, and U. Goswami, "Emergence of the cortical encoding of phonetic features in the first year of life," Nature Communications, vol. 14, 2023
Participants
67, 50 infants (each recorded at 4, 7 and 11 months) + 17 adults
Stimuli
English nursery rhymes (sung or chanted, audio-visual), infant-directed speech
Single speech
Amount of data
infants: at least 13.7 min per session, 3 sessions; adults: 20.6 min (18 nursery rhymes x 3 repetitions) per participant
Sex of talker
female
Comments
Longitudinal infant cohort. Preprocessed EEG in CND format; the raw recordings are not shared
Y. Zhang, H. Ruan, Z. Yuan, H. Du, X. Gao, and J. Lu, "A Learnable Spatial Mapping for Decoding the Directional Focus of Auditory Attention Using EEG," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, pp. 1-5, 2023 and Y. Zhang, J. Lu, F. Chen, H. Du, X. Gao, and Z. Lin, "Multi-Class Decoding of Attended Speaker Direction Using Electroencephalogram and Audio Spatial Spectrum," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 33, 2025
Participants
21, normal hearing
Stimuli
Chinese news programs
Competing speech
Amount of data
64 min (32 trials x 2 min) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female
Location of competing talkers
random pairs from +-135/120/90/60/45/30/15 degrees
Acoustic conditions
loudspeaker array
Comments
per trial, random pairs of the competing speaker directions are taken. EEG sampled at 1024 Hz internally, down-sampled to 128 Hz by the headset
A. Rogachev and O. Sysoeva, "Neural tracking of natural speech in children in relation to their receptive speech abilities," Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 86, 2024
Participants
51, children (3-8 years)
Stimuli
Russian children's stories (with video)
Single speech
Amount of data
18.5 min (4 stories of 3-5.6 min) per participant
Sex of talker
female
Comments
Preschool Language Scales (PLS-5) receptive speech scores included. Data in CND format
I. Rotaru, S. Geirnaert, N. Heintz, I. Van de Ryck, A. Bertrand, and T. Francart, "What are we really decoding? Unveiling biases in EEG-based decoding of the spatial focus of auditory attention," Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 21, no. 1, 016017, 2024
Participants
13, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Dutch science-outreach podcasts
Competing speech
Amount of data
80 min (2 blocks x 4 conditions x 10 min) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-male
Location of competing talkers
90/-90 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered in anechoic room
Comments
Per condition, a different audio-visual condition is used (moving video, moving target noise, no visuals, static video). EOG also available. Per trial (=condition), there is one switch in attention after 5 minutes
M. Thornton, D. Mandic, and T. Reichenbach, "Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Methods for Decoding Selective Attention to Speech From Ear-EEG Recordings," IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 127614-127625, 2025
Y. Yan, X. Xu, H. Zhu, P. Tian, Z. Ge, X. Wu, J. Chen, "Auditory Attention Decoding in Four-Talker Environment with EEG,". In Proceedings of Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, pp. 432-436, 2024 and H. Zhu et al., "Using Ear-EEG to Decode Auditory Attention in Multiple-speaker Environment," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, pp. 1-5, 2025
Participants
16, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Chinese stories
Competing speech
Amount of data
40 min (40 trials x 60 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female (4 speakers)
Location of competing talkers
-90/-30/+30/+90
Acoustic conditions
4 loudspeakers in anechoic room
Comments
4-competing speaker paradigm; scalp and around-ear EEG (cEEGrid) recorded simultaneously; original stimuli available upon request (2301111611@stu.pku.edu.cn), only envelopes available
Y. Yao, A. Stebner, T. Tuytelaars, S. Geirnaert, and A. Bertrand, "Identifying temporal correlations between natural single-shot videos and EEG signals," Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 21, no. 1, 016018, 2024
Participants
19, young, normal or corrected-to-normal vision
Stimuli
Muted natural single-shot videos (YouTube) + a Mr. Bean episode
Video
Amount of data
63 min (13 single-shot videos), plus 24 min (Mr. Bean) for 9 of the 19 participants per participant
S. Geirnaert, S. L. Kappel, and P. Kidmose, "A direct comparison of simultaneously recorded scalp, around-ear and in-ear EEG for neural selective auditory attention decoding to speech," Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 41655, 2025.
Participants
15, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Danish popularizing lectures
Competing speech
Amount of data
60 min (6 trials x 10 min) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-male
Location of competing talkers
60/-60 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered
Comments
All EEGs were simultaneously recorded. Video of attended speaker was present in half of the trials
EventAAD
2025
Competing speech
24
20
8.0
EEG 32-channel scalp + 2 x 6-channel in-ear-EEG (TMSi Mobita)
N. D. T. Nguyen, K. Mikkelsen, and P. Kidmose, "Cognitive component of auditory attention to natural speech events," Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 18, 1460139, 2024 and N. D. T. Nguyen, H. Phan, S. Geirnaert, K. Mikkelsen, and P. Kidmose, "AADNet: An End-to-End Deep Learning Model for Auditory Attention Decoding," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 33, pp. 2695-2706, 2025
Participants
24, normal hearing
Stimuli
Danish audiobook and radio news excerpts, synthesized (Google Text-to-Speech)
Competing speech
Amount of data
20 min (paradigm 4, 40 trials x approx. 30 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male and female (randomly selected synthetic voices)
Location of competing talkers
60/-60 degrees
Acoustic conditions
loudspeakers at 1 m in listening room (reverberation time 0.4 s)
Comments
EventAAD dataset; scalp and ear-EEG recorded simultaneously. Also three event-based paradigms: single-talker word oddball, competing word streams, and competing stories with target words
2025
Single speech
50
41
34.2
EEG 64-channel actiCAP/BrainAmp (experiment 1) or BioSemi (experiment 2)
G. Piazza, S. Carta, E. Y. J. Ip, J. Pérez-Navarro, M. Kalashnikova, C. D. Martin, and G. M. Di Liberto, "Are you talking to me? How the choice of speech register impacts listeners' hierarchical encoding of speech," Imaging Neuroscience, vol. 3, imag_a_00539, 2025
Participants
50, young; 25 L2 learners of English (L1 Spanish) + 25 native English speakers
Stimuli
English stories in three speech registers (native-directed, slow native-directed, L2 accommodation)
Single speech
Amount of data
approx. 41 min (3 stories of 11-15 min) per participant
Q. Wang, Q. Zhou, Z. Ma, N. Wang, T. Zhang, Y. Fu, and J. Li, "Le Petit Prince (LPP) multi-talker: Naturalistic 7 T fMRI and EEG dataset," Scientific Data, vol. 12, no. 829, 2025
Participants
25, young
Stimuli
Mandarin audiobook ("The Little Prince")
Competing speech
Amount of data
20 min (2 trials x 10 min) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female (synthesized)
Location of competing talkers
NA
Acoustic conditions
insert earphones
Comments
fixation on crosshair; also fMRI available and single-talker data
M. M. Winchester, K. Reynolds, C. Nebo, I. C. Scott, and G. M. Di Liberto, "Where is the melody? Spontaneous attention orchestrates melody formation during polyphonic music listening," eLife (reviewed preprint), 2025
Participants
31, young (19-30 years), 8 with musical training
Stimuli
Polyphonic classical piano music (32 MIDI pieces; original, pitch-inverted and monophonic versions)
Music
Amount of data
approx. 80 min (32 pieces x approx. 150 s) per participant
Instruments
piano (polyphonic, two voices)
Comments
Uninstructed (spontaneous) attention during polyphonic music listening, followed by a melody identification task. Data in CND format
Y. Yan, X. Xu, H. Zhu, S. Li, B. Wang, X. Wu, and J. Chen, "Overestimated performance of auditory attention decoding caused by experimental design in EEG recordings," in Proceedings of Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 1053-1057, 2025
Participants
16, young, normal hearing
Stimuli
Chinese stories
Competing speech
Amount of data
40 min (40 trials x 60 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female (4 speakers)
Location of competing talkers
-90/-30/+30/+90
Acoustic conditions
4 loudspeakers in anechoic room
Comments
Intentional non-block design was used. Same stimuli as Yan et al. (Interspeech 2024).
Y. Yao, W. De Swaef, S. Geirnaert, and A. Bertrand, "EEG-Based Decoding of Selective Visual Attention in Superimposed Videos," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 7248-7261, 2025
Participants
19, young, normal or corrected-to-normal vision
Stimuli
Natural videos (single objects and two superimposed objects), no audio
Video
Amount of data
approx. 66 min (28 min single-object + 38 min superimposed-object videos) per participant
Comments
Selective visual attention to one of two superimposed objects (each video watched with attention to different objects); eye-tracking data included
Y. Zhang, Z. Song, J. Lu, F. Chen, and Z. Lin, "Auditory Attention Decoding from Ear-EEG Signals: A Dataset with Dynamic Attention Switching and Rigorous Cross-Validation," arXiv, 2025 (arXiv:2510.19174)
Participants
98, students, self-reported normal hearing
Stimuli
Mandarin news programs (CCTV)
Competing speech
Amount of data
31.5 min (63 trials x 30 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
female-male-male (3 speakers)
Location of competing talkers
3 out of 5 directions (0, +-60, +-120 degrees)
Acoustic conditions
loudspeaker array
Comments
3 competing speakers; cued attention switches within trials (7 task types). cEEGrids around both ears
S. Chen, B. Li, C. He, D. Li, M. Wu, X. Shen, S. Wang, X. Wei, X. Wang, H. Wu, and Q. Liu, "An EEG Dataset for Multimodal Semantic Alignment and Neural Decoding during Reading and Listening," Scientific Data, vol. 13, 148, 2026
Participants
8, young (18-25 years), normal hearing
Stimuli
Mandarin novels ("The Little Prince", "Garnett Dream"), read aloud by other participants
Single speech
Amount of data
approx. 2.7 hours (21.6 hours in total over 8 participants, 4-5 runs each) per participant
Sex of talker
male or female (4 participants each)
Comments
ChineseEEG-2. Also EEG of 4 other participants reading the same texts aloud (10.7 hours, recorded at 250 Hz)
MAESTRO
2026
Competing speech
16
52.5
14.0
EEG 32-channel ANT Neuro + eye tracking (Tobii Pro Glasses 3), egocentric video, head IMU
K. M. N. Hassan, A. Alavi, and D. S. Williamson, "MAESTRO: a Multimodal Auditory-attention Egocentric Speech-TRacking Open corpus," arXiv, 2026 (arXiv:2609.31898)
Participants
16, young (18-30 years)
Stimuli
English audiobooks (LibriSpeech) + domestic background noise (CHiME-Home)
Competing speech
Amount of data
52.5 min (105 trials x 30 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male and female (4 talkers per trial, 420 different speakers)
Location of competing talkers
4 talkers at +-22.5 and +-67.5 degrees, 2 noise sources at +-135 degrees
Acoustic conditions
loudspeakers in a quiet room, attended-talker SNR 0-18 dB
Comments
4 competing talkers + background noise; participants could move their eyes and head freely. Simultaneous eye gaze, pupillometry, egocentric video and head motion.
I. Rotaru, S. Geirnaert, N. Heintz, A. Bertrand, and T. Francart, "When feedback backfires: investigating neurofeedback effects in a closed-loop auditory attention decoding paradigm," bioRxiv, 2026
Participants
11, normal hearing (19-66 years)
Stimuli
Flemish science-outreach podcasts
Competing speech
Amount of data
56-64 min (8 trials x 8 min) + 20 min calibration for some participants per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-male
Location of competing talkers
+-14 degrees (loudspeakers at 1.4 m)
Acoustic conditions
loudspeakers
Comments
Closed-loop AAD with neurofeedback: open-loop, visual feedback, auditory feedback and pseudo-feedback conditions; cued attention switches every 2 or 4 min. 11 of the 19 participants are shared; preprocessed EEG (64 Hz) also included
X. Wang, Y. Ding, Y. Ban, L. Wang, and F. Chen, "An Open Non-Invasive EEG Dataset for Spontaneous Auditory Attention Switch Decoding," Scientific Data, vol. 13, 883, 2026
Participants
18, young (18-27 years), normal hearing
Stimuli
Mandarin narrative speech (AISHELL corpus)
Competing speech
Amount of data
60 min (60 trials x 60 s) per participant
Sex of competing talkers
male-female
Location of competing talkers
90/-90 degrees
Acoustic conditions
HRTF-filtered via headphones
Comments
Spontaneous (self-initiated) attention switches, marked with button presses; passive-listening control block also available
J. Wilroth, N. S. Silva, A. Tafakkor, B. de Avo Mesquita, E. Y. J. Ip, B. Lau, J. Hannah, and G. M. Di Liberto, "Investigating neural speech processing with functional near infrared spectroscopy: considerations for temporal response functions," bioRxiv, 2026
Participants
8, adults (25-43 years)
Stimuli
English podcast dialogues (adult-adult and adult-child)