How to use the Quail package

The Egg data object

• The Egg data object
  • Load in the library
  • The pres data structure
  • The rec data structure
  • Multisubject eggs
  • Adding features to the egg
  • Defining custom distance functions for the stimulus feature dimensions
  • Adding meta data to an egg
  • Adding listgroup and subjgroup to an egg
  • Saving an egg
  • Stacking eggs
  • Cracking eggs

Basic analysis and plotting

• Basic analyzing and plotting
  • Recall Accuracy
  • Serial Position Curve
  • Probability of First Recall
  • Lag-CRP
  • Temporal clustering
  • Memory Fingerprint

More advanced plotting

• Advanced plotting
  • Accuracy
  • Memory fingerprints
  • Other analyses

Setting up speech decoding

• Automated Speech Decoding
• Setting up ffmpeg
  • On a mac:
• Setting up the Google Speech API
  • Super-user tip:

What is a “memory fingerprint”?

• Computing a memory fingerprint

Example datasets

Quail includes two classic free recall datasets for demonstration and testing. These tutorials show how to load and analyze these datasets.

• Analyzing Murdock (1962) Free Recall Data
  • Load the dataset
  • Set up subject groupings
  • Analyze and plot
  • Key findings
• Analyzing Polyn et al. (2009) CMR Data
  • Load the dataset
  • Set up list groupings
  • Analyze and plot
  • Key findings