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Human Subject Meta Data

Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience edited this page Jul 21, 2015 · 2 revisions

This page specifies the meta-data for human subjects.

This information may be added to any recording of human subject data.

<subject>          # information about the human subject 
  <id>             # de-personalized identifier 
  <age>            # age in years 
  <gender>         # can be Male or Female 
  <handedness>     # handedness; can be Left, Right, or Equal 
  <vision>         # can be Normal, CorrectedToNormal, Impaired 
  <hearing>        # can be Normal, CorrectedToNormal, Impaired 
  <height>         # height in centimeters 
  <weight>         # weight in kilograms 
  <medication>     # general information on medication and other substance effects 
    <caffeine>     # hours since last caffeine intake, if less than 12 hours 
    <alcohol>      # whether the subject has consumed alcohol within 24 hours before the recording (Yes or No)
  </medication> 
</subject>