Track It to Crack It: Dissecting Processing Stages with Finger Tracking.
decision-making
serial versus parallel processing
trajectory tracking
Journal
Trends in cognitive sciences
ISSN: 1879-307X
Titre abrégé: Trends Cogn Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9708669
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2019
12 2019
Historique:
received:
18
01
2019
revised:
12
09
2019
accepted:
06
10
2019
pubmed:
5
11
2019
medline:
25
9
2020
entrez:
5
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A central goal in cognitive science is to parse the series of processing stages underlying a cognitive task. A powerful yet simple behavioral method that can resolve this problem is finger trajectory tracking: by continuously tracking the finger position and speed as a participant chooses a response, and by analyzing which stimulus features affect the trajectory at each time point during the trial, we can estimate the absolute timing and order of each processing stage, and detect transient effects, changes of mind, serial versus parallel processing, and real-time fluctuations in subjective confidence. We suggest that trajectory tracking, which provides considerably more information than mere response times, may provide a comprehensive understanding of the fast temporal dynamics of cognitive operations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31679752
pii: S1364-6613(19)30237-2
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.10.002
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1058-1070Informations de copyright
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