Posterior beliefs and behaviour of human visual information foragers

This dataset contains behavioural and eye tracking data collected for 80 participants completing a visual information foraging task. The dataset compromises two smaller datasets, each containing data collected for 40 participants, doing similar task, which were combined for all analyses. Participants judged which of two patches of randomly moving dots had a higher rate of coherent motion signals. Participants' response accuracies and times were recorded, along with fixation location and pupil size. Posterior beliefs about signal rates were modelled for each participant using participants fixation locations and signal arrival time data. Subject-averaged data used to perform analyses, code for running the experiment and pre-processing and analysing data, and figures depicting main findings are also included in the dataset.