This document guides through the data repository of the paper “Eyes still Move when the Mind Is Blind: Content-Related Eye Movements During Mental Imagery in Aphantasia” by Enea J. Weber and Lilla M. Gurtner (shared first authorship), and Fred W. Mast, 2024.
The folders in this repository contain files with raw-data, stimuli and analysis files. A graphical overview over the entire repository is in “overview_files.png”.
To replicate the analysis/results, run first Data_preparation.Rmd (with a look into CheckEyeData.qmd if you are curious) and then run MS_4_submission.Rmd. In each .Rmd file, you need to first set the path correctly to the directory where you downloaded this folder. The rest of the scripts should only contain relative paths.
If you want to re-fit all models (will take some time, depending on your computer!), you have to delete or move all .rds-files in the sub-folders of processed_data/models/. If you don’t do this, MS_4_submission.Rmd will load the models and not refit them.
¦–CheckEyeData.qmd - script to illustrate individual scan paths
¦–Collab_Enea.Rproj - Rproject in which the analysis was run
¦–Data_preparation.Rmd - script to prepare the raw-data into analyzable sets
¦–figs - figures
¦–Figures - more figures
¦–import_old_filter_data.m - Matlab script to import fixation data for calculating rqa values with runRQA_corrected.m
¦–MS_4_submission.Rmd - all analysis and plotting for the submitted manuscript
¦–overview_files.png - illustration of directory structure
¦–processed_data - folder with processed data
¦–r-references.bib - references
¦–raw_data - folder with raw data
¦–READ_ME.html - knitted version of the read-me file
¦–READ_ME.Rmd
¦–Recurrence_heatmaps - folder with code to generate recurrence heat-maps
¦–runRQA_corrected.m - Matlab script calculate rqa-values from fixation data, used in “Data_preparation.Rmd”
¦–stimuli - stimuli used in the experiment
¦–Supplementary_Material.pdf - supplementary material script
°–Supplementary_Material.Rmd - supplementary material script
¦– behav_data - folder containing old-new recognition data and details/occlusion-data
¦– eye - folder containing filtered fixation, RQA data and data about the rating of individual pictures’ vividness
°– models - folder with models for all analysis reported in the main article or supplementary material
¦–demographics - folder containing demographic information on participants with aphantasia and VVIQ-1-item-level responses
¦–details - folder with sub-folders for participants with aphantasia and control participants containing the raw details/occlusion-task results (psycho-py output files)
¦–fixation_data - folder with raw fixation report directly from the eye tracker
°–old_new_recognition_data - folder with sub-folders for participants with aphantasia and control participants containing the raw recognition results (psycho-py output files)
Sub-folders contain the stimuli used for the two behavioural tasks (details /occlusion task and old-new recognition task)
¦–occlusion_stimuli
°–old_new_recognition_stimuli
R environment session info for reproducibility of results
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| version | R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31) |
| os | macOS Ventura 13.4.1 |
| system | x86_64, darwin20 |
| ui | X11 |
| language | (EN) |
| collate | en_US.UTF-8 |
| ctype | en_US.UTF-8 |
| tz | Europe/Rome |
| date | 2024-12-17 |
| pandoc | 3.1.1 @ /Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/app/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown) |
| Package | Loaded version | Date |
|---|---|---|
| devtools | 2.4.5 | 2022-10-11 |
| dplyr | 1.1.4 | 2023-11-17 |
| forcats | 1.0.0 | 2023-01-29 |
| ggplot2 | 3.5.0 | 2024-02-23 |
| kableExtra | 1.4.0 | 2024-01-24 |
| lubridate | 1.9.3 | 2023-09-27 |
| purrr | 1.0.2 | 2023-08-10 |
| readr | 2.1.5 | 2024-01-10 |
| stringr | 1.5.1 | 2023-11-14 |
| tibble | 3.2.1 | 2023-03-20 |
| tidyr | 1.3.1 | 2024-01-24 |
| tidyverse | 2.0.0 | 2023-02-22 |
| usethis | 2.2.3 | 2024-02-19 |
Aphantasic individuals: approx. October 2021 - July 2022 Control individuals: approx. 2017-2018
Lab at the Fabrikstrasse 8, Unversity of Bern
Eye movements, Looking at nothing effect, Aphantasia, mental representations, mental imagery, recurrence quantification analysis
Funding agency name: For work of Enea Weber: SNF Grant number:100014_214940
The data set underlyies the cc-by licence. Please cite as follows: Gurtner, Weber & Mast. 2024. Eye movements during mental imagery in aphantasic and control individuals.