Evaluating the effects of a programming error on a virtual environment measure of spatial navigation behavior.
Evaluating the effects of a programming error on a virtual environment measure of spatial navigation behavior.
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评估编程错误对空间导航行为的虚拟环境测量的影响。
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10.1037/xlm0001146
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2023
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Newcombe,NoraS
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Weisberg,StevenM;Schinazi,VictorR;Ferrario,Andrea;Newcombe,NoraS
依靠共享的任务和刺激来进行研究可以提高研究结果的可复制性，并允许研究人员社区在多个实验中收集大量数据集。这种方法特别适用于空间导航实验，因为这通常需要开发不熟悉的大规模虚拟环境来测试参与者。共享平台的一个挑战是，未被发现的技术错误，而不是仅限于个别研究，在许多研究中变得普遍。在这里，我们讨论了一个虚拟环境平台中的软件错误的发现，用于调查空间导航的个体差异：虚拟Silcton。由于多种原因，该错误很难检测到，导致在指向任务中存储方向的绝对值而不是有符号的方向，并使方向的原始符号不可恢复。为了评估漏洞对已发表结果的影响，我们收集了一个新的数据集进行比较。结果显示，尽管该错误导致了指向错误的抑制，并且对不同的人产生了不同的影响（不太准确的导航器具有更多的抑制），但该错误对已发布数据的影响很小，部分解释了检测该错误的困难。我们还使用新的数据集开发了一个工具，允许以前使用过Virtual Silcton的研究人员评估该错误对他们发现的影响。我们总结了共享开放材料，共享数据和协作的方式，可以为更好的科学铺平道路，以防止未来的错误。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023阿帕，保留所有权利）
Relying on shared tasks and stimuli to conduct research can enhance the replicability of findings and allow a community of researchers to collect large data sets across multiple experiments. This approach is particularly relevant for experiments in spatial navigation, which often require the development of unfamiliar large-scale virtual environments to test participants. One challenge with shared platforms is that undetected technical errors, rather than being restricted to individual studies, become pervasive across many studies. Here, we discuss the discovery of a software bug in a virtual environment platform used to investigate individual differences in spatial navigation: Virtual Silcton. The bug, which was difficult to detect for several reasons, resulted in storing the absolute value of a direction in a pointing task rather than the signed direction and rendered the original sign of the direction unrecoverable. To assess the impact of the bug on published findings, we collected a new data set for comparison. Results revealed that although the bug caused suppression in pointing errors and had different effects across people (less accurate navigators had more suppression), the effect of the bug on published data is small, partially explaining the difficulty in detecting the bug. We also used the new data set to develop a tool that allows researchers who have previously used Virtual Silcton to evaluate the impact of the bug on their findings. We summarize the ways that shared open materials, shared data, and collaboration can pave the way for better science to prevent errors in the future.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)