SynthesisPsychonomic bulletin & review2021
Using mouse cursor tracking to investigate online cognition: Preserving methodological ingenuity while moving toward reproducible science.
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- Comparing drift-diffusion modeling and finger tracking as a window into decision-making in handball penalty situations.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- A web-based mouse-tracking task for early perceptual language processing.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Movement tracking of psychological processes: A tutorial using mousetrap.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Exploring the synthesis of mouse cursor tracking and drift diffusion modeling in a perceptual decision-making task.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Disentangling decision errors from action execution in mouse-tracking studies: The case of effect-based action control.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Movement trajectories as a window into the dynamics of emerging neural representations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Age-related changes in motor planning for prior intentions: a mouse tracking reach-to-click task.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The temporal development of memory processes in source monitoring: An investigation with mouse tracking.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Online mouse cursor trajectories distinguish phonological activation by linguistic and nonlinguistic sounds.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Effects of conflict in cognitive control: Evidence from mouse tracking.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Moving beyond response times with accessible measures of manual dynamics.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Costly avoidance of Pavlovian fear stimuli and the temporal dynamics of its decision process.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Design choices: Empirical recommendations for designing two-dimensional finger-tracking experiments.Behavior research methods · 2020Article
- Lost to translation: How design factors of the mouse-tracking procedure impact the inference from action to cognition.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Mouse cursor tracking has become a prominent method for characterizing cognitive processes, used in a wide variety of domains of psychological science. Researchers have demonstrated considerable ingenuity in the application of the approach, but the methodology has not undergone systematic analysis to facilitate the development of best practices. Furthermore, recent research has demonstrated effects of experimental design features on a number of mousetracking outcomes. We conducted a systematic review of the mouse-tracking literature to survey the reporting and spread of mouse variables (Cursor speed, Sampling rate, Training), physical characteristics of the experiments (Stimulus position, Response box position) and response requirements (Start procedure, Response procedure, Response deadline). This survey reveals that there is room for improvement in reporting practices, especially of subtler design features that researchers may have assumed would not impact research results (e.g., Cursor speed). We provide recommendations for future best practices in mouse-tracking studies and consider how best to standardize the mouse-tracking literature without excessively constraining the methodological flexibility that is essential to the field.
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