MouseTracker.

Jon Freeman
Tufts University


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MouseTracker is a free-to-use, user-friendly software package that allows researchers to record and analyze real-time hand movements en route to 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 mental processing. Experiments can incorporate images, letter strings, and sounds. Once recorded, participants' mouse trajectories can be processed, visualized, averaged, and explored, and measures of attraction/curvature, complexity, velocity, and acceleration computed. (More)

Current version
: 2.1 (March 11, 2010)
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>> Read the 2010 article describing and validating the software in Behavior Research Methods