diff --git a/pysaliency/datasets/utils.py b/pysaliency/datasets/utils.py
index 2fc89c9..6bf30ce 100644
--- a/pysaliency/datasets/utils.py
+++ b/pysaliency/datasets/utils.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def _load_attribute_dict_from_hdf5(attribute_group):
         json_attributes = json_attributes.decode('utf8')
     __attributes__ = json.loads(json_attributes)
 
-    attributes = {attribute: load_hdf5_dataset(attribute_group, attribute) for attribute in __attributes__}
+    attributes = {attribute: attribute_group[attribute][...] for attribute in __attributes__}
     return attributes
 
 
@@ -122,4 +122,4 @@ def concatenate_attributes(attributes):
                 padded_attributes.append(np.hstack((a, padding)))
             else:
                 padded_attributes.append(a)
-        return np.vstack(padded_attributes)
\ No newline at end of file
+        return np.vstack(padded_attributes)