Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online

Authors: Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Colombo, G. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: PLoS ONE

Volume: 16

Issue: 11 November

eISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259367

Abstract:

Online data collection offers a wide range of benefits including access to larger and more diverse populations, together with a reduction in the experiment cycle. Here we compare performance in a spatial memory task, in which participants had to estimate object locations following viewpoint shifts, using data from a controlled lab-based setting and from an unsupervised online sample. We found that the data collected in a conventional laboratory setting and those collected online produced very similar results, although the online data was more variable with standard errors being about 10% larger than those of the data collected in the lab. Overall, our findings suggest that spatial memory studies using static images can be successfully carried out online with unsupervised samples. However, given the higher variability of the online data, it is recommended that the online sample size is increased to achieve similar standard errors to those obtained in the lab. For the current study and data processing procedures, this would require an online sample 25% larger than the lab sample.

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Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online.

Authors: Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Colombo, G. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: PLoS One

Volume: 16

Issue: 11

Pages: e0259367

eISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259367

Abstract:

Online data collection offers a wide range of benefits including access to larger and more diverse populations, together with a reduction in the experiment cycle. Here we compare performance in a spatial memory task, in which participants had to estimate object locations following viewpoint shifts, using data from a controlled lab-based setting and from an unsupervised online sample. We found that the data collected in a conventional laboratory setting and those collected online produced very similar results, although the online data was more variable with standard errors being about 10% larger than those of the data collected in the lab. Overall, our findings suggest that spatial memory studies using static images can be successfully carried out online with unsupervised samples. However, given the higher variability of the online data, it is recommended that the online sample size is increased to achieve similar standard errors to those obtained in the lab. For the current study and data processing procedures, this would require an online sample 25% larger than the lab sample.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36052/

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Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online

Authors: Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Colombo, G. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: PLOS ONE

Volume: 16

Issue: 11

ISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259367

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36052/

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Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online

Authors: Segen, V., Wiener, J., Slattery, T. and Colombo, G.

Journal: PLoS One

Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)

ISSN: 1932-6203

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36052/

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Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online.

Authors: Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Colombo, G. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: PloS one

Volume: 16

Issue: 11

Pages: e0259367

eISSN: 1932-6203

ISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259367

Abstract:

Online data collection offers a wide range of benefits including access to larger and more diverse populations, together with a reduction in the experiment cycle. Here we compare performance in a spatial memory task, in which participants had to estimate object locations following viewpoint shifts, using data from a controlled lab-based setting and from an unsupervised online sample. We found that the data collected in a conventional laboratory setting and those collected online produced very similar results, although the online data was more variable with standard errors being about 10% larger than those of the data collected in the lab. Overall, our findings suggest that spatial memory studies using static images can be successfully carried out online with unsupervised samples. However, given the higher variability of the online data, it is recommended that the online sample size is increased to achieve similar standard errors to those obtained in the lab. For the current study and data processing procedures, this would require an online sample 25% larger than the lab sample.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36052/

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Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online

Authors: Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Colombo, G. and Wiener, J.

Journal: PLoS One

Volume: 16

Issue: 11

Publisher: The Authors

ISSN: 1932-6203

Abstract:

Online data collection offers a wide range of benefits including access to larger and more 17 diverse populations, together with a reduction in the experiment cycle. Here we compare 18 performance in a spatial memory task, in which participants had to estimate object locations 19 following viewpoint shifts, using data from a controlled lab-based setting and from an unsupervised 20 online sample. We found that the data collected in a conventional laboratory setting and those 21 collected online produced very similar results, although the online data was more variable with 22 standard errors being about 10% larger than those of the data collected in the lab. Overall, our 23 findings suggest that spatial memory studies using static images can be successfully carried out 24 online with unsupervised samples. However, given the higher variability of the online data, it is 25 recommended that the online sample size is increased to achieve similar standard errors to those 26 obtained in the lab. For the current study and data processing procedures, this would require an 27 online sample 25% larger than the lab sample.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36052/

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