DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b2rbnzsh9
title: Replicating Attribute Amnesia effect in the single-stimulus design

description: Attribute Amnesia refers to the phenomenon that subjects fail to report
 some features (e.g., colour) of a stimulus after they have been asked to
 repetitively report some other features (e.g., numeric parity) of the same
 stimulus. This effect has shown strong replicability in the multi-stimuli
 design, in which there is normally one target among three distractor
 stimuli. Recently, Wang et al. (2021) furtherly showed the robustness of
 this effect when there was only one stimulus on the screen. As the main
 experiment of the current project will be conducted online, we aim to
 pre-register a replication attempt of Experiment 1 of Wang et al. (2021)
 in the online-experiment setting. This study shows that one can indeed
 replicate previous in-lab experiments on attribute amnesia in the online
 setting, demonstrating convincing online data quality for serious
 investigations. The functions of Webcam-based eyetracking from Labvanced
 also make rigorous environmental control and recording saccadic data
 possible.
description: A short textual report on the study including introduction,
 method, results and conclusion information is attached to this deposition
 (see PILOTEXP1.pdf in supplemental material).
description: # Replicating Attribute Amnesia Effect in the Single-Stimulus Design
 ## Description of the data
 and file structure **Raw behavioral data header meaning (dataset name:
 AAPTN100)** * Rec_Session_Id: Subject ID * X: Row number * Block_Nr: Block
 number (1) * Block_Name: Block name (block_1) * Task_Nr: Task number
 (1:introduction ; 2: pre-surprise task; 3: surprise task) * Task_Name:
 Task name (Instruction: introduction ; PreSurpParityT: pre-surprise task;
 PostSurpColorParityT: surprise task) * Trial_Nr: Trial number (1-32; 1-27
 pre-surprise trials; 28-32 surprise + post-surprise trials) * Trial_Id:
 Trial ID (1-32) * Condition_Id: Condition ID (1-32) * CorrectPostCol:
 Correctness of surprise color task (on 28-32th trials only) * CorrectPre:
 correctness of pre-surprise parity task (on all trials) * RT_Fixation:
 Fixation frame duration in ms * RT_ResponsePostCol: RT on surprise color
 response in ms (on 28-32th trials only) * RT_ResponsePre: RT on
 pre-surprise parity response in ms (on all trials) * text: Number identity
 of the stimulus (12-19) * text_color: Color of the stimulus (yellow,
 purple, green red) * TimeBin3: Every three adjacent trials are grouped
 into one trial bin. * Age: Reported age of the participant * Gender:
 Reported gender of the participant * Congruency1BackN: the congruency
 between the surprise (28th) trial color and the 1-back (27th) trial color
 (1: congruent; 0: incongruent); * Congruency1BackF: the congruency between
 the surprise (28th) trial color and the 1-back (27th) trial color (same:
 congruent; different: incongruent); * Congruency2BackN: the congruency
 between the surprise (28th) trial color and the 2-back (26th) trial color
 (1: congruent; 0: incongruent); * Congruency2BackF: the congruency between
 the surprise (28th) trial color and the 2-back (26th) trial color (same:
 congruent; different: incongruent); * Congruency3BackN: the congruency
 between the surprise (28th) trial color and the 3-back (25th) trial color
 (1: congruent; 0: incongruent); * Congruency3BackF: the congruency between
 the surprise (28th) trial color and the 3-back (25th) trial color (same:
 congruent; different: incongruent); * Congruency4BackN: the congruency
 between the surprise (28th) trial color and the 4-back (24th) trial color
 (1: congruent; 0: incongruent); * Congruency4BackF: the congruency between
 the surprise (28th) trial color and the 4-back (24th) trial color (same:
 congruent; different: incongruent); * PresurpAcc: the average accuracy of
 pre-surprise task of the participant; * Pass: whether the average accuracy
 of the participant on presurprise task pass the pre-registered data
 exclusion criteria (1: yes; 0: no); **Raw eyetracking data header meaning
 (dataset name: AAPTN100ES and AAPTN100EF)** **AAPTN100ES was collected
 during stimulus display** **AAPTN100EF was collected during surprise task
 display** * X.1: Row number * Block_Nr: Block number (1) * Block_Name:
 Block name (block_1) * Task_Nr: Task number (1:introduction ; 2:
 pre-surprise task; 3: surprise task) * Task_Name: Task name (Instruction:
 introduction ; PreSurpParityT: pre-surprise task; PostSurpColorParityT:
 surprise task) * Trial_Nr: Trial number (1-32; 1-27 pre-surprise trials;
 28 surprise trial + 29-32 post-surprise trials) * Trial_Id: Trial ID
 (1-32) * Exp_Subject_Id: Subject ID 1 * Rec_Session_Id: Subject ID 2 *
 Session_Nr: Session number (1) * timestamp: time stamp when the fixation
 data was loaded in ms * X: X coordinate of fixation location in unites
 (0-800; 0 represents left side of display) * Y: Y coordinate of fixation
 location in unites (0-430; 0 represents lower side of display) * Time:
 time stamp when the fixation took place in ms * Confidence: confidence of
 the fixation coordinate computation (0-1), the higher the more confident.
 * Example: Participants whose subject ID is lower than 360712 are taken as
 example participants for illustrations. All NA values represent the data
 is inapplicable. ## Code/Software The code (PILOTEXP1.Rmd) is written in
 RMarkdown environment (AttAmnExp1.Rproj). The report in PDF format
 (PILOTEXP1.pdf) uploaded in the supplemental material can be fully
 generated by knitting the code to PDF. The Fig.1 (Design.png) in the
 report is attached as supplementary material as well. Some latex packages
 might have been installed in your R environment as pre-requisite to
 replicate the format. All files should be stored in the same folder as the
 code (PILOTEXP1.Rmd) and R environment file (AttAmnExp1.Rproj) for
 successful replication of the report content.