The Corsi Blocks Task: Variations and coding with jsPsych

Gibeau, Rose-Marie

doi:10.20982/tqmp.17.3.p299

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“…This flexibility of abstraction is a key feature of jsPsych, and part of what makes it a particularly powerful way of declaratively creating experiments. jsPsych v7.2 includes 50 plugins, and many more plugins have been developed by the research community (e.g., Callaway et al, 2017;Rajananda, Lau, & Odegaard, 2018;Kuroki, 2021;Galang et al, 2021;Strittmatter, Spitzer, & Kiesel, 2021;Cousineau, 2021;Gibeau, 2021;Donhauser & Klein, 2021;Kinley, 2022).…”

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“…Today this task is routinely administered using a computer. Squares on a screen take the place of the physical cubes, the experimenter's stick has been replaced by a programmed sequence of cues, and the responses of the participant are automatically tracked with greater precision (Brunetti, Del Gatto, and Delogu, 2014;Gibeau, 2021;Arce and McMullen, 2021).…”

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Simulating Behavior to Help Researchers Build Experiments

Leeuw¹,

Gilbert²,

Petrov³

et al. 2022

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Testing that an experiment works as intended is critical for identifying design problems and catching technical errors that could invalidate the results. Testing is also time consuming because of the need to manually run the experiment. This makes testing the experiment costly for researchers, and therefore testing is less comprehensive than testing in other kinds of software development where tools to automate and speed up the testing process are widely used. In this paper, we describe an approach that substantially reduces the time required to test behavioral experiments: automated simulation of participant behavior. We describe how software that is used to build experiments can use information contained in the experiment's code to automatically generate plausible participant behavior. We demonstrate this through an implementation using jsPsych. We then describe four potential scenarios where automated simulation of participant behavior can improve the way researchers build experiments. Each scenario includes a demo and accompanying code. The full set of examples can be found at https://jspsych.github.io/simulation-examples/.

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“…Corsi Block Span Task. In our adaptation of the Corsi block span task (Milner, 1971; adapted for online use by Gibeau, 2021), 10 square blocks were displayed across a screen. In each of these trials, a sequence of blocks flashed on the screen for 400 ms with 1,400 ms between each flash.…”

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Trust my gesture or my word: How do listeners choose the information channel during communication?

Arslan¹,

Ng²,

Göksun³

et al. 2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Information can be conveyed via multiple channels such as verbal and gestural (visual) channels during communication. Sometimes the information from different channels does not match (e.g., saying right while pointing to the left). How do addressees choose which information to act upon in such cases? In two experiments, we investigated this issue by having participants follow instructions on how to move objects on the screen. Experiment 1 examined whether people’s choice of channel can be altered by feedback favoring either the verbal or the gestural channel. In Experiment 2, there was no feedback and participants were free to choose either channel. We also assessed participants’ verbal and visuospatial working memory capacities. Results showed that, when faced with contradicting information, there is a natural bias at the group level toward relying on the verbal channel, although this bias can be temporarily altered by probabilistic feedback. Moreover, when labels were shorter and of higher frequency, participants relied more on the verbal channel. In the absence of feedback, the capacity of individuals’ visual, but not verbal, working memory determined reliance on one channel versus the other. Collectively, these results show that information selection in communication is influenced by group-level biases, as well as the properties of items and characteristics of individuals.

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The Corsi Blocks Task: Variations and coding with jsPsych

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Simulating behavior to help researchers build experiments

Simulating behavior to help researchers build experiments

Simulating Behavior to Help Researchers Build Experiments

Trust my gesture or my word: How do listeners choose the information channel during communication?

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