bled_2021_imagery_use

833 responses from 119 respondents to 7 items.

One of 2 tables from the same source; this one measures Use of visual mental representations across everyday situations. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionUse of mental imagery vs. words across 7 cognitive tasks (recollection, comprehension, anticipation, planning, problem-solving, decision, memorization), autistic and control adults
ReferenceBled C, Guillon Q, Soulières I, Bouvet L (2021). Thinking in pictures in everyday life situations among autistic adults. PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0255039. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255039
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0255039
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255039.s001

Size and shape

Responses833
Respondents119
Items7
Response categories3
Responses per respondent7
Responses per item119
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleTargeted/specific
construct typeCognitive/educational
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)fre
construct nameUse of visual mental representations across everyday situations

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentUse of visual mental representations in everyday life situations (Bled et al., 2021 online questionnaire, items 5-11)
Mean words per item21.429
Mean characters per item112.714
Mean characters per response6
Flesch-Kincaid grade level8.815

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, bled_2021_pheno_imagery.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).made in the build script
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate age
cov_educationCovariate education [1=BEP/CAP; 2=BAC; 3=BAC+2; 4=BAC+3; 5=BAC+5; 6=BAC+8]
cov_groupCovariate group [0=control; 1=autism]
cov_sexCovariate sex [1=M; 2=F]

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python:

# R (no account needed)
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("bled_2021_imagery_use")
# Python (needs a free Redivis account)
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("bled_2021_imagery_use")

How to cite

@article{Bled_2021, title={Thinking in pictures in everyday life situations among autistic adults}, volume={16}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255039}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0255039}, number={7}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Bled, Clara and Guillon, Quentin and Soulières, Isabelle and Bouvet, Lucie}, editor={Dritschel, Barbara}, year={2021}, month=July, pages={e0255039} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv540
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v13.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/gpg7-sg87
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv13.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v37.0