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Peer-reviewed studies that ran on Open Lab. Each case study is written by the Open Lab team from the published article, states which part of the study ran on the platform, and is approved by the authors.

Visual working memory

Proactive interference in visual working memory, tested online and in the lab

The Early Minds Lab at UMass Boston built a new object-location memory task in lab.js and ran its first experiment on Open Lab, with 43 Prolific participants taking part from home. Memory for an object's location was less accurate when that object had appeared on earlier trials. The team then replicated the effect in two laboratory experiments with eye tracking.

43 participants onlineRecruited via ProlificBuilt in lab.js
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics · 2024Read the case study →

2 s

2 s

How many thingsare in a pair?

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5 s, keys 1–4

One trial of the online experiment, redrawn from the article