BIDS integration

[dominikbach]

Feature Description

Background:

BIDS is a standard format for data storage in human cognitive neuroscience (MRI, EEG, PET, ...) and has an extension for psychophysiology. To share data in a non-proprietary format, BIDS could be very useful.

Tasks:

1. Analyse BIDS for physiological and other continuous recordings: https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/04-modality-specific-files/06-physiological-and-other-continuous-recordings.html

• is this format practical or are changes desirable?
• is this format sufficient to store all information contained in PsPM data files, including representation of data units, markers, etc.?
• if not, which extensions would be needed?
• which extensions would be required to store meta-data required during PsPM pre-processing (e.g. eyetracker geometry, respiration measurement type, etc.)
• compare potential alternatives: https://leibniz-psychology.org/en/institute/third-party-funded-projects/psycuradat/

2. Coordinate and propose extension to BIDS format if required

3. Write I/O functions

• import BIDS data type
• export to BIDS
• alternatively, consider pspm_load_bids to interact with BIDS data directly (and possibly remove need for matlab data format)

4. Analyse BIDS for task events: https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/04-modality-specific-files/05-task-events.html

• is this format sufficient to store all information required for pspm_get_timing?
• possibly propose extension

5. Write functions to set up models from information in task event data