PsPM-PIT1: Physiological Measurements from Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer Tasks

A three-session experiment with 22 healthy participants (13 females, 9 males, aged 26.2 +/- 3.6) recorded on the same day. The dataset contains electrocardiogram (ECG), pupil size (PSR), respiration, and skin conductance (SCR) measurements from instrumental conditioning, classical fear conditioning, and Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer tasks. Yanfang Xia from the University of Zurich created this dataset, which is available via paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Modeling physiological arousal based on skin conductance and ECG responses during fear conditioning.
• Analyzing pupil size dynamics as a correlate of cognitive effort during instrumental decision-making tasks.
• Investigating the transfer effect of conditioned visual stimuli on instrumental behavior using combined physiological signals.

Strengths

• Includes data from 22 participants with specific demographic details (13 females, 9 males, mean age 26.2).
• Contains four synchronized physiological measurement types (ECG, PSR, respiration, SCR) across three distinct experimental sessions.
• Experimental design details are provided, including stimulus types (visual CS, electrical US) and timing parameters (SOA 3.0 s, ITI 2.5 s).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

University of Zurich

Collection Method

Experimental data collected from human participants during controlled laboratory tasks.