A repo for the 2014 Line task 3rd year project analysis and paper, entitled:
Target-distractor Synchrony Affects Performance in a Novel Motor Task for Studying Action Selection
The data for the experiment are found in analysis/AllData/
There are sub-directories there for each experimenter, and within each of these, sub-directories for each participant. In each particpant's directory there is a directory called 'line' which contains three files, one file for each condition of the task (no distractor, synchronous distractor and asynchronous distractor).
To repeat the extraction of latencies and errors - that is to create the file analysis/AllData/fnames.mat do the following:
Install Octave (ideally version 3.8.1 or 3.8.2).
change directory into analysis
call the octave script lt_analyse_all
This will take a few minutes to process the data, a lot of text will fly past the screen!
For a more interesting look at the latency extraction, try just lt_analyse. This will provide a dialog box allowing you to open one of the data files: analysis/AllData/Experimenter/Participant/line/*.txt
Analysing just one trial will show graphs of the data, along with the extracted latencies.
The statistical analysis can be carried out by running the ipython notebook called Anova.ipynb
This makes sub-calls to R scripts and displays pertinent results.