How mouse-tracking can advance social cognitive theory

PE Stillman, X Shen, MJ Ferguson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Mouse-tracking–measuring computer-mouse movements made by participants while they
choose between response options–is an emerging tool that offers an accessible, data-rich …

Track it to crack it: dissecting processing stages with finger tracking

D Dotan, P Pinheiro-Chagas, F Al Roumi… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
A central goal in cognitive science is to parse the series of processing stages underlying a
cognitive task. A powerful yet simple behavioral method that can resolve this problem is …

Doing psychological science by hand

JB Freeman - Current directions in psychological science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past decade, mouse tracking in choice tasks has become a popular method across
psychological science. This method exploits hand movements as a measure of multiple …

Reading emotion from mouse cursor motions: Affective computing approach

T Yamauchi, K Xiao - Cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Affective computing research has advanced emotion recognition systems using facial
expressions, voices, gaits, and physiological signals, yet these methods are often …

Mouse tracking as a window into decision making

M Maldonado, E Dunbar, E Chemla - Behavior research methods, 2019 - Springer
Mouse tracking promises to be an efficient method to investigate the dynamics of cognitive
processes: It is easier to deploy than eyetracking, yet in principle it is much more fine …

Movement trajectories as a window into the dynamics of emerging neural representations

R Koenig-Robert, GL Quek, T Grootswagers… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid transformation of sensory inputs into meaningful neural representations is critical
to adaptive human behaviour. While non-invasive neuroimaging methods are the de-facto …

Tracking stress via the computer mouse? Promises and challenges of a potential behavioral stress marker

P Freihaut, AS Göritz, C Rockstroh, J Blum - Behavior Research Methods, 2021 - Springer
Computer mouse tracking offers a simple and cost-efficient way to gather continuous
behavioral data and has mostly been utilized in psychological science to study cognitive …

Reexamining unconscious response priming: A liminal-prime paradigm

M Avneon, D Lamy - Consciousness and cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Research on the limits of unconscious processing typically relies on the subliminal-prime
paradigm. However, this paradigm is limited in the issues it can address. Here, we examined …

Positive psychological interventions and cognition

BM Stone, K Schmidt - The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Positive Psychological Interventions (PPIs) such as the gratitude letter appear to
increase subjective well-being and decrease depression. Previous research suggests that …

Hand Motions Reveal Attentional Status and Subliminal Semantic Processing: A Mouse-Tracking Technique

K Xiao, A Zhang, J Qu, F Deng, C Guo, T Yamauchi - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Theories of embodied cognition suggest that hand motions and cognition are closely
interconnected. An emerging technique of tracking how participants move a computer …