Seeing a Bayesian Ghost

The current experiment:

Based on:

Friedrich, E. V., Zillekens, I. C., Biel, A. L., O'Leary, D., Seegenschmiedt, E. V., Singer, J., ... & Sauseng, P. (2022). Seeing a Bayesian ghost: Sensorimotor activation leads to an illusory social perception. iScience, 25(4), 104068.

Preregistered hypothesis:

https://aspredicted.org/75k6h.pdf

Branches:

• main (Pilot 1)
• signal-dots (Pilot 2)
• super-training/massive-training (Experiment 1)

Development Guide (How to test locally the current experiment):

Install and configure XAMPP:

1. Download XAMPP with PHP version 7.3.19
2. Open XAMPP and click "Start" to boot the XAMPP application.
3. Navigate to "Services" and click "Start All" button.
4. Navigate to "Network", select localhost:8080, and click "Enable".
5. Navigate to "Volumes" and click "Mount".

Clone the git repository:

6. Open Terminal and navigate to the htdocs directory: Mac/Linux: cd ~/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs Windows: cd C://xampp//htdocs

7. Clone into htdocs: git clone https://github.com/santiagocdo/bayesianGhost.git

Modifty permissions:

8. Copy this text into your terminal from the htdocs folder (the folder you are already in). sudo chmod -R 777 bayesianGhost/

Start experiment:

9. Click this URL: http://localhost:8080/bayesianGhost

BRAVO! You're a XAMPP master.