A bit like a box plot. I mean not necessarily the standard upper confidence interval, lower confidence interval, mean, and data range-showing box plots, but I mean like a box plot with just the three pieces of data: the 95% confidence interval and mean.
This is a screenshot of a journal article which had exactly what I want:
I would also like to know how I would use the software the answerer mentions to create such a plot.
Best Answer
In MATLAB, you might want to try the errorbar function: http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/matlab/ref/errorbar.html
Alternatively, you can do it the dumb and manual way. For example, given a matrix of data points "a", you can calculate your means using the function m = mean(a), calculate your CIs (depending on what CI you need), and plot the results by hand.
Demonstration if you already know the mean and CI, assuming CIs are in a matrix CI (first and second column) and means are in a matrix a:
Demonstration in the case where you know individual measurements, for a repeated-measures experiment, 3+ conditions, one condition per column, one subject per line in matrix a, no missing samples, 95% CI as by MATLAB's ttest():