Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 11; p. e0259367
• Main Authors: Segen, Vladislava, Avraamides, Marios, Slattery, Timothy, Colombo, Giorgio, Wiener, Jan Malte
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.11.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biology and Life Sciences; Cameras; Computer and Information Sciences; COVID-19; Data Collection; Data entry; Data processing; Dementia; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Errors; Experiments; Female; Humans; Internet; Laboratories; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Memory; Memory tasks; Mental task performance; Methods; Personal computers; Photic Stimulation; Psychological research; Psychology; Social Sciences; Spatial ability; Spatial analysis; Spatial Memory; Supervision; Task Performance and Analysis; Virtual reality; Young Adult; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; Cyprus; Singapore

Online data collection offers a wide range of benefits including access to larger and more diverse populations, together with a reduction in the experiment cycle. Here we compare performance in a spatial memory task, in which participants had to estimate object locations following viewpoint shifts,...