PsPM-SCBD: Skin Conductance Response from an Auditory Fear Conditioning Task

10 healthy participants (5 female, 5 male, mean age 24.1) underwent a discriminant delay fear conditioning experiment with auditory conditioned stimuli. The dataset includes skin conductance response measurements, CS and US information, and post-experiment subjective ratings of CS likelihood and preference. Matthias Staib from the University of Zurich contributed this data.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between auditory stimuli and physiological arousal based on skin conductance response measurements.
• Analyzing subjective threat expectancy ratings based on visual analogue scale responses.
• Studying discriminant fear conditioning using simple and complex auditory conditioned stimuli.
• Investigating individual differences in physiological responses to aversive stimuli like electric pulse trains.

Strengths

• Includes data from 10 participants with balanced gender representation (5 females, 5 males).
• Contains multiple data types: physiological SCR measurements, stimulus information, and subjective ratings.
• Provides specific participant age statistics (range 18-33, mean 24.1 +/- 4.7).

Limitations

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Provenance

Source

University of Zurich

Collection Method

Collected from a classical (Pavlovian) discriminant delay fear conditioning experiment with auditory CS and electric pulse US.