Data and Analysis Unit: EXE3

Last update: 2015-03-19 by Andy Wills

Description

Pigeon go-left, go-right, visual discrimination task, reported in Maes et al. (in prep.) This DAU contains stimulus files, raw data, and an analysis script, in open cross-platform formats (see the file format notes).

Citation

The APA-format citation for this resource is: Wills, A.J. (2014). Data and Analysis Unit: EXE3. Retrieved from http://www.willslab.co.uk/exe3

If you make use of these resources, please drop me an email: andy@willslab.co.uk.

Resources

exe3stim.tbz (50 KB) - Stimulus image files
exe3data.txt (2.7 MB) - Trial-level raw data. Column headings are as follows:
- subj: Bird ID number (unique within EXE3). 1 = "At", 2 = "Ax", 3 = "Bw", 4 = "Fe", 5 = "He", 6 = "Mo", 7 = "Ta"
- phase.name: Experiment phase ("T1", "T2", "T3", "T4", "T5"). Note 1: In one session for Bird 2, and one session for Bird 4, the T3 procedure was accidentally run during another phase - phase.name is set to 'ErrorT3' for these sessions.
- date: Date of session (in YYYY-MM-DD format)
- time: 1 = first session on that date, 2 = second session on that date.
- sess: Session number (resets for each phase)
- trial: Trial number (resets for each session). Note 2: A few sessions have fewer trials than expected - this is due to birds occasionally ceasing to peck before session end. Note 3: A few sessions have more trials than expected - this is due to experimenter error. These sessions contain the appropriate trial types for the phase, just slightly too many of them.
- stimtype: Logical stimulus type, as referred to in Maes et al. (in prep.)
- stim: Filename of physical stimulus presented, as in exe3stim.tbz
- trialtype: L+ = go-left trial. R+ = go-right trial.
- acc: 1 = First peck is correct; 0 = First peck is incorrect.
exe3analysis.R (3 KB) - R script for analyses reported in Maes et al. (in prep.). This script can be run by the command source('exe3analysis.R'), or can be run interactively.