One of the main challenges of writing research has been its generative nature. As a
production task, writing cannot be controlled as easily as other psychological laboratory …

This chapter explores how keystroke logging can be used to help further our understanding
of how (i) cognitive load and (ii) individual performance affect our keyboard writing …

As suggested by the title, this book focuses on how logging of writing can contribute to our
understanding of text production processes. Historically, writing process researchers have …

Most, if not all, cognitive models of writing agree that composing is a complex and
cognitively demanding activity involving a profusion of processes (Hayes, 1996; …

Phase models of the text-production process basically assume that different writing activities
predominate during different time periods in the process. These time periods of activities can …

Language entails many nested time scales, ranging from the relatively slow scale of cultural
evolution to the rapid scale of individual cognition. The nested, multiscale nature of …

Writing is a complex activity recruiting many different modules of processing. These
processes range from higher-order levels of planning and revision to lower-order levels of …

Keystroke logging provides a detailed record of the process of writing as it unfolds in time.
However, by themselves, the measures it provides—pauses, bursts and revisions—do not …

In this chapter, we present a brief overview of studies in which keystroke logging has been
used. It is our aim to illustrate how this research technique is used to better understand both …

Typing is becoming our preferred way of writing. Perhaps because of the relative recency of
this change, very few studies have investigated typing from a psycholinguistic perspective. In …