PsPM-DoxMemP: Psychophysiological Measurements from a Fear Conditioning Task

Skin conductance response, electrocardiogram, and respiration measurements from 20 healthy participants. The data was collected during a classical discriminant delay fear conditioning task using visual conditioned stimuli and electrical unconditioned stimuli. The dataset was contributed by Saurabh Khemka from the University of Zurich.

Use Cases

• Modeling skin conductance response dynamics based on conditioned stimulus presentation.
• Analyzing heart rate variability from electrocardiogram data during fear conditioning trials.
• Studying respiratory patterns in relation to the anticipation and delivery of an electrical stimulus.
• Investigating individual differences in physiological reactivity based on keypress response times.

Strengths

• Includes data from 20 healthy, unmedicated participants with a reported age of 26.15 +/- 4.15 years.
• Contains three synchronized physiological modalities: skin conductance response, electrocardiogram, and respiration.
• Stimulus timing parameters are explicitly defined, including a 3.5-second stimulus onset asynchrony and variable inter-trial intervals.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Zurich

Collection Method

Collected from participants in a controlled laboratory fear conditioning task.