PsPM-PCF2: PSR, SCR, ECG, respiration and startle-eyeblink EMG measurements in a delay fear conditioning task with 4 CS and different reinforcement rates

This dataset includes eyetracker, skin conductance response (SCR), electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration, electromyogram (EMG), and auditory startle output (snd, as delivered by sound card) measurements. Also included are CS and US information, keypress responses and keypress response times for 19 healthy unmedicated participants (5 males and 14 females aged 24.68 +/- 3.65 years) participating in a classical (Pavlovian) discriminant delay fear conditioning task. CS were 4 coloured rectangles. US consisted of 0.5 s square electric pulses with 0.2 ms duration and 500 Hz frequency. SOA between the CS onset and US was 3.5 s. CS and US co-terminated. In the last learning block, an auditory startle probe (ST) and no US was delivered 3.5 s after CS onset via headphones (100 dB, 50 ms duration with 2ms on- and offset ramp). The ITI was randomly determined on each trial to be 7, 9, or 11 s.