Data Collection for a Longitudinal Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) Study of the Creative Process Over the Span of 18 Months in Real-World Settings

Understanding human creativity remains one of the fundamental questions linking art, science, and engineering. Contemporary neuroscience studies investigating the brain in relation to creativity have been limited to single-session laboratory settings that fail to capture the progressive nature of the creative process in complex settings. To overcome these limitations, we deployed a combination of context-aware documentation (video and personal journal) and mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) technology to monitor and record a Houston-based multimedia installation artist in real-world-settings. We make available the first longitudinal MoBI dataset using dry-electrode electroencephalography (EEG) as she performs label-specific tasks.