Repostiory home of the Memory Modulation Lab's TRIADs Study.
The TRIADs Study was an online behavioral experiment designed to test a neuroscience inspired hypothesis on the organization of individual differences in memory. This experiment served as the 3 chapter of Kyle Kurkela's dissertation.
| directory | explanation |
|---|---|
./analysis |
contains all scripts related to analyzing data collected for the final version of the experiment. |
./consents |
contains html and pdf versions of online consent forms from two different IRBs. See ./consents/README.md for more information. |
./data |
houses the data for the experiment. note: the data files are included in the .gitignore file and are NOT tracked by git. Also contains scripts to analyze the pilot data. See ./data/README.md for more inforation. |
./jspsych |
houses the openly available software package jspsych. |
./pilots |
houses scripts related to the 4 pilot versions of the experiment. |
./stim |
contains .csv files for the experimental stimuli. |
| directory | explanation |
|---|---|
backwards_digit_span_day1.json |
contains the random digit sequences used during the trials of the backwards digit span task for day 1 in .json format. Serves as input into experiment.html. |
backwards_digit_span_day2.json |
contains the random digit sequences used during the trials of the backwards digit span task for day 2 in .json format. Serves as input into experiment.html. |
backwards_digit_span.R |
R code for creating backwards_digit_span_day1.json and backwards_digit_span_day2.json. |
experiment_data.csv |
an organized list of all possible stimuli for day 1 and day 2. |
generate_experiment_data.R |
R code for creating experiment_data.csv |
experiment.css |
a cascading style sheet (.css) file that controls the formating of the TRIADs experiment in experiment.html. |
experiment.html |
the web page (.html) file that, when accessed, runs the experiment. |
experiment.js |
a javascript file containing javascript code (similar to how R code is contained in .R files) that is utilized in experiment.html |
generate_stim_banks.R |
R code for generating the stimuli banks found in the ./stim directory. |
save_data.php |
php code for writing data to an online server. See the jspsych documentation |
The experiment is programmed in javascript using the openly available jspsych software package. I highly recommend becoming confortable with javascript, html, and css before using jspsych. I found the documentation on the jspsych website to be particularly helpful.
I included READMEs within each subdirectoy. These contain much more detailed information concerning the files contained within that subdirectory.