MouseTracker
Authors: | Jon Freeman & Nalini Ambady |
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Updated: | Sat 30 April 2016 |
Source: | http://www.mousetracker.org/ |
Type: | software |
Languages: | N/A |
Keywords: | software, cognition, psychology, experiment |
Open Access: | yes |
License: | |
Documentation: | http://mousetracker.jbfreeman.net/help/ |
Publications: | Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N. (2010). MouseTracker: Software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking method. Behavior Research Methods 42, 226–241. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.1.226 |
Citation: | Freeman, J. & Nalini, A. (2009). MouseTracker. http://www.mousetracker.org/ |
Summary: | MouseTracker is a freely available, user-friendly software package that allows researchers to record and analyze hand movements traveling toward potential responses on the screen (via the x, y coordinates of the computer mouse). By looking at the dynamics of how participants' hand movements settle into a response alternative—and how they may be partially pulled toward other alternatives—researchers glean valuable information about real-time cognitive processing. MouseTracker opens up a single reaction time into a continuous stream of rich cognitive output. |