Variations of autonomic arousal mediate the reportability of mind-blanking occurrences

Mind-Blanking (MB) is a state of complete absence of any mental content, only recognized by a post-hoc realization that "I was thinking of nothing". Previous work has identified unique brain physiology and network configurations which promote MB reportability. These indices seem to reflect decreased levels of physiological arousal as expressed in terms of reduced cortical excitation. Our project aims to provide a direct link between physiological and cortical arousal and MB occurrence. We will measure MB reports under 3 arousal conditions, baseline, after sleep deprivation (low), and after high-intensity exercise (high). Therefore, using multimodal physiological recordings, experience sampling, and a data-driven decoding approach, we want to examine: 1. how MB response distributions are affected by different levels of arousal 2. if there is a specific brain-body pattern that promotes MB occurrences. This dataset contains all raw data (EEG, ECG, EDA, RSP, EYE -- resampled to EEG sampling rate) in BIDS format, all results dataframes and all machine learning models used in "Variations of autonomic arousal mediate the reportability of mind-blanking occurrences".