R/rr98-data.R

In rtdists: Response Time Distributions

#' Ratcliff and Rouder (1998, Exp. 1) Luminance Discrimination Data 
#' 
#' Responses and response times from an experiment in which three participants were asked to decide whether the overall brightness of pixel arrays displayed on a computer monitor was "high" or "low". In addition, instruction manipulated speed and accuracy between blocks. 
#' 
#' @details The Experiment is described in the following by Ratcliff and Rouder (1998, pp. 349):
#' 
#' In Experiment 1, subjects were asked to decide whether the overall
#' brightness of pixel arrays displayed on a computer monitor was "high"
#' or "low". The brightness of a display was controlled by the
#' proportion of the pixels that were white. For each trial, the proportion
#' of white pixels was chosen from one of two distributions, a high
#' distribution [i.e., light] or a low [i.e., dark] distribution, each with fixed mean and standard
#' deviation. Feedback was given after each trial to tell the subject whether his or her decision had correctly indicated the distribution
#' from which the stimulus had been chosen. Other than this feedback, a
#' subject had no information about the distributions. Because the distributions overlapped substantially, a subject could not be highly accurate. A display with 50% white pixels, for example, might have come
#' from the high distribution on one trial and the low distribution on
#' another.
#' 
#' \subsection{Stimuli}{ 
#' The stimulus display for Experiment 1 was a square that was 64
#' pixels on each side and subtended 3.8 degree of visual angle on a PC-VGA
#' monitor. [...] In each square, 3,072 randomly
#' chosen pixels were neutral gray, like the background, and the remaining 
#' 1,024 pixels were either black or white; the proportion of white to
#' black pixels provided the brightness manipulation. There were 33
#' equally spaced proportions from zero (all 1,024 pixels were black) to
#' 1 (all 1,024 pixels were white). The two distributions from which the
#' bright and dark stimuli were chosen were centered at .375 (low brightness) 
#' and .625 (high brightness), and they each had a standard deviation of .1875.
#' }
#' 
#' \subsection{Procedure}{
#' A subject's task was to decide, on each trial, from which distribution, 
#' high or low brightness in Experiment 1, the observed
#' stimulus (stimuli) had been sampled. Subjects made their decision by
#' pressing one of two response keys. On each trial, a 500-ms foreperiod, 
#' during which the display consisted solely of neutral gray, was followed 
#' by presentation of the stimulus; presentation was terminated by
#' the subject's response. In Experiment 1, speed-versus-accuracy
#' instructions were manipulated. For some blocks of trials, subjects
#' were instructed to respond as quickly as possible, and a "too slow"
#' message followed every response longer than 550 ms. For other
#' blocks of trials, subjects were instructed to be as accurate as possible,
#' and a "bad error" message followed incorrect responses to stimuli
#' from the extreme ends of the distributions. Experiment 1 had ten 35-min 
#' sessions, and Experiments 2 and 3 had four sessions. In Experiment 1, 
#' subjects switched from emphasis on speed to emphasis on
#' accuracy every 204 trials. Each session consisted of eight blocks of
#' 102 trials per block, for a total of 8,160 trials per subject. Each 
#' session consisted of eight blocks of 102 trials, for a total of 3,264 trials
#' per subject in each experiment. For all trials in each experiment, subjects 
#' were instructed to maintain a high level of accuracy while
#' responding quickly, and an "error" message indicated incorrect
#' responses. Responses were followed by a 300-ms blank interval, and
#' the error message was displayed for 300 ms after the blank interval.
#' }
#' 
#' @note The data is already prepared following Ratcliff and Rouder (1998) by removing the following trials:
#' \itemize{
#' \item{the first session for each participant}
#' \item{the first 20 trials of each session}
#' \item{the first trial of each block (each change in speed accuracy starts a new block)}
#' }
#' To fully replicate the data used by Ratcliff and Rouder (1998) one only needs to remove the trials that are \code{TRUE} in column \code{outlier} (i.e., RTs outside of (200ms, 2500ms)). The full raw data is also available as part of this package, see:\cr
#' \code{system.file("extdata", "rr98-data", package = "rtdists")} and \code{system.file("extdata", "rr98-data.codes", package = "rtdists")}
#' 
#' @docType data
#' @keywords dataset
#' @name rr98
#' @usage rr98
#' @format A \code{data.frame} with 24,358 obs. and 12 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{id}{participant id, factor with three levels}
#'  \item{session}{session number, integer}
#'  \item{block}{block number, integer}
#'  \item{trial}{trial number within a block, integer}
#'  \item{instruction}{factor with two levels: \code{"accuracy"} for blocks with accuracy instructions; \code{"speed"} for blocks with speed instruction}
#'  \item{source}{factor with two levels: distribution strength was drawn from, \code{"dark"} and \code{"light"}}
#'  \item{strength}{proportion of white to black pixels were varied by 33 equally spaced proportions from zero (all 1,024 pixels were black) to 1 (all 1,024 pixels were white). with 0 darkest and 32 lightest. Integer.}
#'  \item{response}{factor with two levels: \code{"dark"} and \code{"light"}}
#'  \item{response_num}{numeric response variable such that \code{1="dark"} and \code{2="light"}}
#'  \item{correct}{boolean indicating whether or not \code{source==response}. (Does not seem to be used in the original analysis.)}
#'  \item{rt}{response time in seconds}
#'  \item{outlier}{boolean indicating whether or not the response was considered an outlier by Ratcliff and Rouder (1998), i.e., RTs outside of (200ms, 2500ms)}
#' }
#'
#' @source Ratcliff, R., & Rouder, J. N. (1998). Modeling Response Times for Two-Choice Decisions. \emph{Psychological Science}, 9(5), 347-356. http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00067
#' 
#' @example examples/examples.rr98.R
#'
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