TY  - INPR
A1  - Hartmann, Matthias
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Pupillometry: The eyes shed fresh light on the mind
T2  - Current biology
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.028
SN  - 0960-9822
SN  - 1879-0445
VL  - 24
IS  - 7
SP  - R281
EP  - R282
PB  - Cell Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hartmann, Matthias
A1  - Martarelli, Corinna S.
A1  - Mast, Fred W.
A1  - Stocker, Kurt
T1  - Eye movements during mental time travel follow a diagonal line
JF  - Consciousness and cognition
N2  - Recent research showed that past events are associated with the back and left side, whereas future events are associated with the front and right side of space. These spatial-temporal associations have an impact on our sensorimotor system: thinking about one's past and future leads to subtle body sways in the sagittal dimension of space (Miles, Nind, & Macrae, 2010). In this study we investigated whether mental time travel leads to sensorimotor correlates in the horizontal dimension of space. Participants were asked to mentally displace themselves into the past or future while measuring their spontaneous eye movements on a blank screen. Eye gaze was directed more rightward and upward when thinking about the future than when thinking about the past. Our results provide further insight into the spatial nature of temporal thoughts, and show that not only body, but also eye movements follow a (diagonal) "time line" during mental time travel. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KW  - Mental time travel
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Mental time line
KW  - Spatial-temporal association
KW  - Future
KW  - Past
KW  - Embodied cognition
KW  - Metaphors
KW  - Mental number line
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.007
SN  - 1053-8100
SN  - 1090-2376
VL  - 30
SP  - 201
EP  - 209
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Hartmann, Matthias
T1  - Pushing forward in embodied cognition: may we mouse the mathematical mind?
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Freely available software has popularized "mousetracking" to study cognitive processing; this involves the on-line recording of cursor positions while participants move a computer mouse to indicate their choice. Movement trajectories of the cursor can then be reconstructed off-line to assess the efficiency of responding in time and across space. Here we focus on the process of selecting among alternative numerical responses. Several studies have recently measured the mathematical mind with cursor movements while people decided about number magnitude or parity, computed sums or differences, or simply located numbers on a number line. After some general methodological considerations about mouse tracking we discuss several conceptual concerns that become particularly evident when "mousing" the mathematical mind.
KW  - mousetracking
KW  - numerical cognition
KW  - SNARC effect
KW  - trajectories
KW  - on-line processing
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01315
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 5
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -