EEG sonification improves sleep staging performance in novice stagers

Sleep staging is a critical tool used in research and clinical settings to evaluate and diagnose sleep conditions; however, sleep staging is labor intensive and may be challenging for inexperienced practitioners. We explored whether adding an auditory representation (sonification) of the EEG to a standard visual representation could improve sleep staging performance or reduce workload. This is the first study to investigate the effects of sonification on sleep staging performance. We performed a within-subjects study in which 40 participants completed an online sleep staging task with and without sonified EEG. EEG was sonified by minimal transformation in which the raw EEG signal was played as an audio signal. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found that adding sonification did not result in improvements in accuracy, speed, or workload for the entire subject group. However, when we stratified participants by sleep staging experience, we found sonification improved accuracy for the least ex..., , # Data from: EEG sonification improves sleep staging performance in novice stagers

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9kz0](10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9kz0)

## Description of the data and file structure

Two files are used for analysis. The qdf.csv file contains data collected after the end of each experimental block, such as the participant's accuracy and their TLX scores after completing the block. The rdf.csv file contains this data, and additionally contains a row for each individual response the participant gave. Missing values are represented as empty columns. Each participant has three rows, which contains their information for the first block (training block), second, and third block of the experiment

Some information is only present for specific blocks. Block 0 is a training block, and participants did not complete the task load index (TLX) after this block; we also did not compute kappa for this block as participants were presented with each question until they got it correct. Some q..., We have inspected the data to ensure that no information as names, emails, IPs, or other identifiers are present.

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