mENACT (Multimodal Expression-centered Neurophysiological Affective Computing Tasks) is a multimodal dataset from N=53 native Mandarin Chinese-speaking participants. Three within-subject tasks — Passive Perception, Spontaneous Production, and Deliberate Performance — combine synchronized fNIRS with behavioral measures.

This Zenodo community collects the v1.0.0 data products. Each record is a standalone download; combine them for full paper reproduction.

Cite the open data

Primary dataset DOI (papers): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20707429 (R0 — open neurophysiological and behavioral data, CC BY-NC 4.0)

Products in this community

RecordAccessUse case
R0PublicfNIRS + behavioral CSV analysis (no participant MP4)
R1–R3RestrictedParticipant MP4 videos (professional / amateur / non-actor groups)
R4RestrictedEnactment transcripts (stimuli_exp3/)

Full catalog with DOIs: docs/downloads.md on GitHub

Code and full reproduction

Workflows, environments, validation code, and assembly guides live on GitHub (engineering tree, MIT license):

https://github.com/BAK262/mENACT

Start here after downloading R0: docs/assembly.md

Restricted materials

R1–R4 are not Zenodo "Request access". Read the data use agreement, submit the access form, and download link(s) are emailed automatically:

Contact: dzhang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Version

Release v1.0.0 (2026-06-18). Primary open-data citation: 10.5281/zenodo.20707429.

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