Dataset
A reduced perception of sensory information is linked with elevated boredom in health and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- 1Institute of Physiology, Focus Program Translational Neurosciences, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
- 2Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and Institute for Computer Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 3Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Untere Zahlbacher Straße 8, 55131 Mainz, Germany
DOI: 10.12751/g-node.blnri7 BROWSE REPOSITORY BROWSE ARCHIVE DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE (ZIP 78 KiB)
Published 04 Mar. 2025 | License Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication
Description
This repository contains a behavioral and psychometric dataset of 142 healthy human subjects (university students) and 19 adult ADHD patients, completing a list of psychometric questionnaires as well as a survey of sentiment for a set of five different text stimuli. The experiment to collect the data was conducted in Germany by the lab of Prof. Simon Rumpel at the Institute of Physiology, Mainz. The text stimuli each consist of a short German story (100 words), that systematically increase in their semantic variety and linguistic complexity. For each text stimulus, subjects were asked to rate their subjective sentiment of perceived "information content", "boredom", "creativity", "valence" and "arousal" on a 7-point Likert scale. We provide data that can be analyzed with the provided MATLAB scripts to generate the figures of the corresponding research manuscript (currently under review for publication). Throughout the dataset, data belonging to a specific subject is marked by an arbitrary ID ranging from 1 to 142 for healthy subjects, and from 143 to 161 for ADHD subjects. Questions and remarks regarding the data and the use of the provided code can be addressed to Dr. med. Johannes P.-H. Seiler (e-mail: johseile@uni-mainz.de).
Keywords
| Boredom | Information | Information theory | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | Perception |References
- Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Jonas Elpelt, Vesvolod Mashkov, Aida Ghobadi, Ambika Kapoor, Daniel Turner, Matthias Kaschube, Oliver Tüscher, Simon Rumpel: A reduced perception of sensory information is linked with elevated boredom in health and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Communications Psychology, submitted.