Open data

The lab is committed to data sharing and providing other researchers with the opportunity to explore new research questions and avenues using our data. Below you find links to EEG, eye-tracking, pupillometry, and other datasets under a Creative Commons license. We continue to add new datasets when the lab publishes new work.

Please cite our work if you use one of our datasets. We also encourage you to reach out to the corresponding and/or senior author and to consider involving them in your project. This may help you get additional insights about the data that may not be detailed in the paper, and it values our contribution, in line with common authorship contributions, for example, Nature's statement: "Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, ..."

Speech-intelligibility data from younger and older adults listening to masked speech.

Description: Intelligibility data for three experiments in younger and older adults listening to speech masked by different degrees of background sound and maskers with different envelope shapes. In one experiment, participants listened to disconnected sentences. In two other experiments, they listened to spoken stories.

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Reference: Irsik VC, Johnsrude IS, Herrmann B (2022) Age-related deficits in dip-listening evident for isolated sentences but not for spoken stories. Scientific Reports.

MEG data from younger and older adults listening to sounds with regular patterns

Description: 306-channel Neuromag MEG. Younger and older adults listened to sounds that contained a regular pattern and sounds without a pattern. The data set comprises raw data and related information.

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Reference: Herrmann B, Maess B, Johnsrude IS (2022) A neural signature of regularity in sound is reduced in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging 109:1-10.

EEG data from younger and older adults listening to amplitude-modulated sounds

Description: 16-channel Biosemi EEG data. Younger and older adults listened to 4-Hz amplitude-modulated sounds with different envelope shapes. The data set comprises raw data and related information.

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Reference: Irsik V, Almanaseer A, Johnsrude IS, Herrmann B (2021) Cortical responses to the amplitude envelopes of sounds change with age. The Journal of Neuroscience 41:5045-5055.

EEG data from five experiments on perceptual learning of auditory patterns

Description: 16-channel Biosemi EEG data from five experiments and behavioral data from one experiment. Participants listened to sounds containing auditory patterns that either repeated or were novel. The data set comprises raw data and related information.

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Reference: Herrmann B, Araz K, Johnsrude IS (2021) Sustained neural activity correlates with rapid perceptual learning of auditory patterns. NeuroImage 238:118238.

Eye-tracking & pupillometry during sentence listening

Description: Eye-link 1000 data from participants listening to sentences with low- and high-ambiguity words presented under different acoustic degradation conditions.

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Reference: Kadem M, Herrmann B, Rodd JM, Johnsrude IS (2020) Pupil dilation is sensitive to semantic ambiguity and acoustic degradation. Trends in Hearing 24:1-16.