README.md

How does building an object affect memory for it?

Paper

Find our paper from the Cognitive Science conference 2024 here: https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/mccarthy_cogsci_2024.pdf

Setup

• pull submodules:
  • git submodule update --init
• download node requirements:
  • cd experiments/
  • npm install

Running experiments

A full breakdown of the experiment versions can be found in the README in the experiments folder.

• cd experiments/
• In two tmux panes run node app.js and node store.js.
• http://localhost:PORTNUM/ will then serve your experiment files.
  • e.g. http://localhost:PORTNUM/index.html should reach the experiment. Or you can direct to a specific page e.g. http://localhost:PORTNUM/static/html/consent.html
• When pointing to an experiment from e.g. Prolific, MTURK, specify urlParams with http://localhost:PORTNUM/static/html/consent.html?WorkerId=test&... etc.
  • These need to be forwarded manually across webpages.

Navigating the repo

• experiments/ contains the code for behavioral experiments.
  • as the block building interface is used in multiple projects, we keep it in a submodule repo building_widget.
• stimuli/ contains the code for generating stimuli. Similar stimuli are used in different experiments, so we keep them in the submodule repo block_utils.
• analysis/ contains the analysis code, organized by project.
  • Typically we break down the task of generating dataframes *_dataframe_generator.ipynb and running analyses *_analysis.ipynb.
• results/ contains the results of the analysis, organized by project.
  • csv/ contains dataframes outputted by dataframe generators