Mental Jenga

Summary

People make causal judgments about the physical world in everyday life. Might mental simulation be critical in our ability to make these judgments?

Repository structure

├── code
│   ├── experiments
│   ├── js
│   └── R
├── data
├── figures
└── docs

code/ includes all the code used in running experiments, model implementation, and data analysis.

• code/experiments includes psiTurk code for each of the experiments described in the paper
• code/js includes javascript code used to implement the model and run simulations
• code/R includes R code for analysis of data and simulations (you can also see the analysis here)

data contains all (anonymized) data gathered, in addition to files containing the data for every trial used in the experiments.

• data/expX directories contain JSON files for the stimuli for each of the 3 experiments
• exp3_key.json contains the IDs of the black and white brick for each trial in experiment 3
• raw/ contains anonymized data files for all experiments

Interactive visualization

Check out the interactive visualization here!