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Code for: Unfamiliar Contexts Compared to Familiar Contexts Impair Learning in Humans

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Alizadeh Asfestani, Marjan
Nagel, Juliane
Beer, Sina
Nikpourian, Ghazaleh
Born, Jan
Feld, Gordon

Abstract / Description

The study this analysis code was written for investigated context effects on new learning in two experiments. In the first one, participants learned and retrieved two non-overlapping word lists in separate sessions. The two sessions either took place within the same context (location, decoration etc.), or in two different contexts. In the second experiment, we wanted to find out whether the effects of context change were influenced by context familiarity. The experiment mirrored the setup of experiment 1, except that participants were additonally familiarised with the other during the first session, so both contexts were equally familiar by the time the second session took place. For further details, please refer to the corresponding publication. Note that the scripts assume that the data lie in the same folder as the analysis scripts, so in order to run these scripts, please download both the data (see "Related PsychArchives Objects") and the code, and add the data files to the analysis folder. If you store the data elsewhere, you will need to adapt the file paths in the analysis scripts before running them.
Code for: Alizadeh Asfestani, M., Nagel, J., Beer, S., Nikpourian, G., Born, J., & Feld, G. B. (2023). Unfamiliar Contexts Compared to Familiar Contexts Impair Learning in Humans. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 71316. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.71316

Keyword(s)

context-dependent learning memory meta-cognition familiarity

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Date of first publication

2023-01-18

Publisher

PsychArchives

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Citation

  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Alizadeh Asfestani, Marjan
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Nagel, Juliane
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Beer, Sina
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Nikpourian, Ghazaleh
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Born, Jan
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Feld, Gordon
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2023-01-18T15:22:21Z
  • Made available on
    2023-01-18T15:22:21Z
  • Date of first publication
    2023-01-18
  • Abstract / Description
    The study this analysis code was written for investigated context effects on new learning in two experiments. In the first one, participants learned and retrieved two non-overlapping word lists in separate sessions. The two sessions either took place within the same context (location, decoration etc.), or in two different contexts. In the second experiment, we wanted to find out whether the effects of context change were influenced by context familiarity. The experiment mirrored the setup of experiment 1, except that participants were additonally familiarised with the other during the first session, so both contexts were equally familiar by the time the second session took place. For further details, please refer to the corresponding publication. Note that the scripts assume that the data lie in the same folder as the analysis scripts, so in order to run these scripts, please download both the data (see "Related PsychArchives Objects") and the code, and add the data files to the analysis folder. If you store the data elsewhere, you will need to adapt the file paths in the analysis scripts before running them.
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  • Abstract / Description
    Code for: Alizadeh Asfestani, M., Nagel, J., Beer, S., Nikpourian, G., Born, J., & Feld, G. B. (2023). Unfamiliar Contexts Compared to Familiar Contexts Impair Learning in Humans. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 71316. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.71316
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  • Publication status
    unknown
  • Review status
    unknown
  • Sponsorship
    This research was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB 654 ‘Plasticity and Sleep’ and the European Research Council (ERC AdG 883098 SleepBalance) to J.B. as well as a DFG Emmy-Noether-Grant (FE 1617/2-1) to G.B.F. and the authors declare no competing financial interests.
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  • Table of contents
    00 README.txt: instructions how to run the code; 01 analysis wordpairs.R: Main analysis (word pair task); 02 control analyses.R: analysis of the control measures; 03 wordpair plots.R: plots presented in the manuscript; the following files are needed to create a local project library via renv: renv: folder containing the renv library and other necessary files to run renv; renv.lock: renv lock file used to run renv; asfestani data code.Rproj: R-project file (to be opened in RStudio); .Rproj.user: settings for the R-project (e.g. pre-opened files); .Rprofile: used to run renv when the project is opened
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/7899
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12358
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
  • Is referenced by
    https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.71316
  • Is related to
    https://www.psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/7898
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.71316
  • Keyword(s)
    context-dependent
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  • Keyword(s)
    learning
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  • Keyword(s)
    memory
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  • Keyword(s)
    meta-cognition
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  • Keyword(s)
    familiarity
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Code for: Unfamiliar Contexts Compared to Familiar Contexts Impair Learning in Humans
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  • DRO type
    code