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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Visual short-term memory (vSTM) is crucial for cognitive function.
  • Continuous-report tasks are standard for measuring vSTM precision.
  • Mixture models (two- and three-component) are prominent for analyzing vSTM data, accounting for target responses, guessing, and binding errors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce mixtur, an open-source R package for fitting mixture models to continuous report data.
  • Provide researchers with a tool to analyze vSTM performance and memory errors.
  • Offer guidance on experimental design parameters for mixture modeling.

Main Methods:

  • Developed mixtur, an R package implementing two- and three-component mixture models.
  • Conducted simulations to evaluate parameter and model recovery.
  • Generated recommendations for trial numbers, set sizes, and stimulus similarity.

Main Results:

  • The mixtur package facilitates the fitting of established mixture models for vSTM research.
  • Simulation results offer practical guidelines for researchers designing continuous-report experiments.
  • The package supports analysis of various models, including slots and slots-plus-averaging.

Conclusions:

  • mixtur lowers the barrier to entry for mixture modeling in vSTM research.
  • The package can be extended to incorporate more complex explanatory models of memory.
  • This tool empowers researchers to more effectively quantify memory precision and error types.