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AVOCODO: An open-source multimodal annotation platform for developmental EEG

An, W. W.
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Behavioral annotation of synchronized video recordings is an essential step in developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research, supporting both the identification of behavior-related artifacts and the investigation of brain-behavior relationships. Existing annotation workflows, however, are often fragmented: proprietary EEG software provides limited flexibility for behavioral coding, whereas dedicated behavioral annotation platforms typically lack native integration with EEG data. We developed AVOCODO (Audio/VideO CODing Optimization), an open-source MATLAB-based software platform that integrates synchronized behavioral annotation directly into the EEG workflow. AVOCODO reads native EGI MFF recordings, synchronizes embedded video with EEG, visualizes the audio spectrogram to facilitate precise annotation of vocalizations, and writes user-defined behavioral events directly back into the original MFF recording as native EEG event markers while simultaneously exporting annotations as CSV files. The software supports fully customizable behavioral coding schemes, optional EEG visualization for quality control, and reloading of previously annotated recordings for review and inter-rater verification. Since its initial development in 2024, AVOCODO has been applied internally across five developmental EEG studies involving approximately 500 pediatric participants and more than 3,000 EEG recordings. By bridging behavioral annotation and EEG preprocessing within a unified open-source workflow, AVOCODO has the potential to improve the efficiency, reproducibility, and scalability of behavioral annotation in developmental EEG research.

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An, W. W.. 2026-09-01. AVOCODO: An open-source multimodal annotation platform for developmental EEG. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747371

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