Brainbase: A research and data management platform for human EEG

摘要

Human beings have a wide range of personalities, proclivities and cognitive capabilities, some of which may be genetically determined, but much of which is shaped by experience. These diverse differences reflect in various ways in the fine scale structure and dynamics of the human brain. It is therefore important to study the human brain in larger sample sizes across diverse human populations. This paper describes v1.0 of BrainBase, a cloud based research platform that enables large scale data management and collaboration for EEG studies with the view of building an open access aggregated database of human EEG at scale. It includes metadata standards for strong experimental controls and cross-dataset comparisons, back-end intelligence to ensure data quality, and the ability to search and compile unique dataset configurations based on keywords. The ease of use of EEG equipment and the framework provided by BrainBase opens opportunities for a wider range of researchers to contribute to human brain science.