The Brain, Body, and Behaviour Dataset

Jens Madsen, Nikhil Kuppa, Lucas C Parra | bioRxiv 2025.04.29.651259

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Picture of a participant sitting in the experiment booth with electrodes placed at the respective modalities' locations.
Figure: Participant sitting in the experiment booth with electrodes placed at the respective modalities' locations.

All experiments were carried out at the City College of New York by Dr Jens Madsen and Dr Lucas Parra.

Subjects were seated comfortably in a sound-attenuated booth with white fabric walls and normal ambient LED lighting around, and all data acquisition devices were securely and safely attached to participants. They watched the videos on a 27” monitor approximately 60 cm from the subject, while audio was delivered through stereo speakers placed next to the monitor and separated by 60° from the subject, as shown in the figure.

Find out more about Dr Madsen's work and his experiments in his portfolio - "https://jensmadsen.com/".
To know more about Dr Parra's work and his experiments, visit his lab's website - "https://parralab.org/".

This website was designed and developed by Nikhil Kuppa.

To inquire regarding a commercial licence, or if you have any questions regarding the datasets, experiments, or the research published, please contact Dr Madsen at jmadsen@ccny.cuny.edu.

People

Jens Madsen

Jens Madsen, Ph.D.

Contributions: Experiment design, Experiment supervision,
Data collection, Data processing

E-mail: jmadsen@ccny.cuny.edu

Nikhil Kuppa Click to visit Nikhil's LinkedIn
Nikhil Kuppa, M.S.

Contributions: Data formatting, Quality Check, Website development

E-mail: nkk2126@columbia.edu

Sara Julio

Sara U. Julio, Ph.D.

Contributions: Data collection

Pawel Gucik

Pawel lJ. Gucik, Ph.D.

Contributions: Data collection

Lucas Parra Click to visit the Parra Lab website

Lucas Parra, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator - Parra Lab, CCNY

E-mail: parra@ccny.cuny.edu

Acknowledgements and Conflicts of Interest

We acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation Grant DRL-1660548. We also thank all the subjects for participating in this data collection.

The authors declare no competing/conflict of interests.

Licence and Usage

This dataset (containing neural, physiological, and behavioral measurements) is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to:
  • Use, analyze and adapt the data for any purpose, including commercial use
  • Share the data (e.g., redistribute it in original or modified form),
    • as long as you give appropriate credit to the original creators, i.e, Jens Madsen, Nikhil Kuppa, and Lucas Parra.

    All derivatives, adaptations, or works based on this dataset must also give appropriate credit the original creators.

    For more information about the license, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .

    If you have any questions regarding the license and usage, please contact us at jmadsen@ccny.cuny.edu.

    When using this resource, please cite:

    Dataset:

    Madsen J, Kuppa N, Parra LC. The Brain, Body, and Behaviour Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos. bioRxiv. 2025 Apr 29;2025.04.29.651259.
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.29.651259     .

    Experiment 1, 2, 3:

    Madsen J, Júlio SU, Gucik PJ, Steinberg R, Parra LC. Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 2;118(5):e2016980118.
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016980118    .

    Experiment 4, 5:

    Jens Madsen, Lucas C Parra, Cognitive processing of a common stimulus synchronizes brains, hearts, and eyes, PNAS Nexus, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2022, pgac020,
    https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac020.

    Pauline Pérez, Jens Madsen, Leah Banellis, Conscious processing of narrative stimuli synchronizes heart rate between individuals, Cell Reports, Volume 36, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2211-1247,
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109692.