Metaphor comprehension

Prerequisites:

• PsychoPy2 v1.81.00 or newer. PsychoPy can be installed as an application. The "Stand Alone" versions include everything you need to create and run the “metaphor comprehension” experiment. PsychoPy2 download link.

Installation

Get the source code:

git clone [email protected]:languageguide/metaphor-comprehension.git

Get the stimuli zip file named “stimuli.zip”. The stimuli file will be publicly available when the scientific paper on this experiment will be released.

cd metaphor-comprehension
unzip stimuli.zip

Run

PsychoPy2

From the PsychoPy2 program open the file “main.psyexp” located into metaphor-comprehension directory.

Web app

In order to run the web app you need to:

1. create a new Google Apps Script from your Google Drive account.
2. copy the script utils/google-form.js into the Google Apps Script file.
3. edit the main function specifing the spreadsheet id.
4. run the Google Apps Script and see the log View -> Logs.

Experiment Analysis

The experimental results will be stored inside the "metaphor-comprehension/data/" directory.

To view the results of the experiments go to the Metaphor comprehension analysis section