Pushing forward in embodied cognition: may we mouse the mathematical mind?
- 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.
| Author details: | Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Matthias Hartmann |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01315 |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25477841 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Place of publishing: | Lausanne |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2014 |
| Publication year: | 2014 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | SNARC effect; mousetracking; numerical cognition; on-line processing; trajectories |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Number of pages: | 4 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
