# 1. ABOUT THE DATASET
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Title:	Reversal learning reliability dataset

Creator(s): Brendan Williams [1,2], Lily Fitzgibbon [3], Daniel Brady [4].

Organisation(s): 1. School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.
                 2. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading.
                 3. Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling
                 4. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sheffield

Rights-holder(s): University of Reading, Brendan Williams, University of Stirling, University of Sheffield.

Publication Year: 2025

Description: 

This repository contains re-test data for a reversal learning task completed by 150 participants, and associated scripts for the analysis of the reliability of behavioural and computational model parameters.

Participants completed 150 trials of the reversal learning task where they were presented with two visually distinguishable abstract stimuli and had to learn through experience which of these two choices were "better". Throughout the task the "better" choice would change, such that the "better" stimulus became the "worse" stimulus and vice versa.

This repository also includes the scripts needed to replicate our analysis presented in the associated publication (Williams, B., FitzGibbon, L., Brady, D., & Christakou, A. (2025). Sample size matters when estimating test-retest reliability of behaviour. Behavior Research Methods), including the calculation of reliability metrics, our effects of sample size on variance component simulation, generating plots, and statistical analysis.

Cite as: Williams, Brendan., Fitzgibbon, Lily., Brady, Daniel. (2025): Reversal learning reliability dataset. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.001377

Related publication: Williams, Brendan., Fitzgibbon, Lily., Brady, Daniel., Christakou, Anastasia. (2025) Sample size matters when estimating test-retest reliability of behaviour. Behavior Research Methods (Accepted).


Contact: b.williams3@reading.ac.uk

# 2. TERMS OF USE
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Copyright 2025 University of Reading, Brendan Williams, University of Stirling, University of Sheffield. All data and documentation are licensed by the rights-holder under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

# 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION
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Title: Reliability of reversal learning behaviour.

Funding organisation: School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.

This research was also supported by Cauldron Science and the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), University of Reading.

# 4. CONTENTS
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This repository contains data and code used in our manuscript "Williams, Brendan., Fitzgibbon, Lily., Brady, Daniel., Christakou, Anastasia. (2025) Sample size matters when estimating test-retest reliability of behaviour. Behavior Research Methods (Accepted)". Each sub-directory has an individual README to describe its contents, alongside any important notes relating to the replication of our methods.