Developmental coordination disorder in children – experimental work and data annotation
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University of West Bohemia, New Technologies for the Information Society, Czechia
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University of West Bohemia, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czechia
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University of West Bohemia, Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Czechia
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4
University Hospital Plzeň, Czechia
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is described as a motor skill disorder characterized by a marked impairment in the development of motor coordination abilities that significantly interferes with performance of daily activities and/or academic achievement [1]. Since some electrophysiological studies suggest differences between children with/without motor development problems, we prepared an experimental protocol and performed electrophysiological experiments with the aim to make a step towards a possible diagnosis of this disorder using the event related potentials (ERP) technique. The second aim is to properly annotate the obtained raw data with relevant metadata and promote their long term sustainability.
The experimental protocol is based on auditory stimulation using the stimuli representing animals and their sounds: bleating goat (80% probability of occurrence), barking dog (5%), meowing cat (5%), meowing dog (5%), and barking cat (5%); 600 stimuli are used in total during the experimental session. The tested subjects were children of younger school age from elementary schools in Pilsen. They were preliminary divided into three groups based on the level of their developmental coordination disorder identified by a motor test. During the experimental session, children were asked to reply to each target stimulus (dog or cat sound) by pressing one button for sounds of barking dog or meowing cat, and the other button for sounds of barking cat or meowing dog.
All experiments were performed in a sound and electrically shielded booth placed in an electrophysiology lab. EEG/ERP activity was recorded using standard 10-20 international system with the reference electrode placed above the nose. Raw data were filtered and cleaned from artifacts; currently they are further analyzed.
The data were collected and annotated respecting the current outcomes of INCF Program on Standards for Data Sharing, Task Force on Electrophysiology and the group developing the Ontology for Experimental Neurophysiology (OEN, https://github.com/G-Node/OEN). The data with metadata will be stored in the EEGbase database (http://eegdatabase.kiv.zcu.cz/) after several conceptual and technological changes (deployment of noSQL database, changes in the user interface) in this web application. The experimental data and metadata will be also provided in the HDF5 format.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under the grant P407/12/1525.
References
[1] American Psychiatric Association: Category 315.40 Developmental Coordination Disorder. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (ed 4). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, p. 53-55, 1994.
Keywords:
Electrophysiology,
event related potentials (ERP),
developmental coordination disorder,
data annotation,
EEGbase
Conference:
Neuroinformatics 2014, Leiden, Netherlands, 25 Aug - 27 Aug, 2014.
Presentation Type:
Demo, not to be considered for oral presentation
Topic:
Electrophysiology
Citation:
Mouček
R,
Mautner
P,
Brůha
P,
Vařeka
L,
Čepička
L and
Holečková
I
(2014). Developmental coordination disorder in children – experimental work and data annotation.
Front. Neuroinform.
Conference Abstract:
Neuroinformatics 2014.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2014.18.00075
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Received:
27 Apr 2014;
Published Online:
04 Jun 2014.
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Correspondence:
Mr. Roman Mouček, University of West Bohemia, New Technologies for the Information Society, Plzeň, 306 14, Czechia, moucek@kiv.zcu.cz