MouseTracker

Authors: Jon Freeman & Nalini Ambady
Updated: Sat 24 December 2016
Source: http://www.mousetracker.org/
Type: software
Languages: N/A
Keywords: softwarecognitionpsychologyexperiment
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.