scholarly journals Moving Beyond the Keypress: As Technology Advances, so Should Psychology Response Time Measurements

Perception ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 030100662110123
Author(s):  
Michelle R. Kramer ◽  
Patrick H. Cox ◽  
Alfred B. Yu ◽  
Dwight J. Kravitz ◽  
Stephen R. Mitroff
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Response Modality ◽  
Response Method ◽  
Technology Advances

Decades of research in cognitive psychology have largely relied on simple key or button presses to quantify human behavior. While many valuable discoveries have been made, a richer response modality may reveal more information regarding the different processes that underlie complex human behavior. This study provides a proof of concept for using a touch-and-swipe response method to separate response time into two components to extract more meaningful behavioral insights. Across several analyses, the two components were consistently shown to be separable, independent measurements of behavior. Furthermore, evaluating these isolated response time components improved inferential power and clarity of behavioral patterns. The touch-and-swipe response method is simple and easy-to-use, and it shows promise for more accurately targeting mechanisms of interest.

scholarly journals Moving beyond the keypress: As technology advances, so should psychology response time measurements

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Kramer ◽  
Patrick Cox ◽  
Alfred Brian Yu ◽  
Dwight Kravitz ◽  
Stephen Mitroff
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Response Modality ◽  
Response Method ◽  
Technology Advances

Decades of research in cognitive psychology have largely relied on simple key or button presses to quantify human behavior. While many valuable discoveries have been made, a richer response modality may reveal more information regarding the different processes that underlie complex human behavior. The current study provides a proof of concept for using a touch-and-swipe response method to separate response time into two components to extract more meaningful behavioral insights. Across several analyses, the two components were consistently shown to be separable, independent measurements of behavior. Furthermore, evaluating these isolated response time components improved inferential power and clarity of behavioral patterns. The touch-and-swipe response method is simple and easy-to-use, and it shows promise for more accurately targeting mechanisms of interest.

Posthuman Bliss?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan B. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Mind

Transhumanists urge us to pursue the biotechnological heightening of select capacities, above all, cognitive ability, so far beyond any human ceiling that the beings with those capacities would exist on a higher ontological plane. Because transhumanists tout humanity’s self-transcendence via science and technology, and suggest that bioenhancement may be morally required, the human stakes of how we respond to transhumanism are unprecedented and immense. In Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin challenges transhumanists’ overarching commitments regarding the mind, brain, ethics, liberal democracy, knowledge, and reality in a more thoroughgoing and integrated way than has occurred thus far. Her critique shows transhumanists’ notion of humanity’s self-transcendence into “posthumanity” to be pure, albeit seductive, fantasy. Levin’s philosophical conclusions would stand even if, as transhumanists proclaim, science and technology supported their vision of posthumanity. They offer breezy assurances that posthumans will emerge if we but allocate sufficient resources to that end. Yet, far from offering theoretical and practical “proof of concept” for the vision that they urge upon us, transhumanists engage inadequately with cognitive psychology, biology, and neuroscience, often relying on questionable or outdated views within those fields. Having shown in depth why transhumanism should be rejected, Levin defends a holistic perspective on living well that is rooted in Aristotle’s virtue ethics but adapted to liberal democracy. This holism is thoroughly human, in the best of senses. We must jettison transhumanists’ fantasy, both because their arguments fail and because transhumanism fails to do us justice.

Growing From Childhood into Adolescence

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zheng Yan ◽  
Robert Z. Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Further Development

In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the science of cyber behavior as a field of research is entering its adolescence after growing from its childhood, but before spearheading into its adulthood. The paper reviews the current understanding of human behavior in general and state that behavior sciences have generated extensive knowledge about human behavior theoretically, empirically, and methodologically across multiple disciplines. Next, the authors focus on cyber communication as an example to illustrate current knowledge about various types of cyber behaviors. They showcase exemplary research programs on cyber behavior in four disciplines of behavioral sciences, social psychology, cognitive psychology, communication studies, and sociology. Finally, the paper outlines future research programs in five major directions for further development of the field. Taking the opportunity to commemorate the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, the authors attempt to draw the first sketch of the science of cyber behavior from the perspective of history of science.

Growing From Childhood Into Adolescence

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Zheng Yan ◽  
Robert Z. Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Further Development

In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the science of cyber behavior as a field of research is entering its adolescence after growing from its childhood, but before spearheading into its adulthood. The paper reviews the current understanding of human behavior in general and state that behavior sciences have generated extensive knowledge about human behavior theoretically, empirically, and methodologically across multiple disciplines. Next, the authors focus on cyber communication as an example to illustrate current knowledge about various types of cyber behaviors. They showcase exemplary research programs on cyber behavior in four disciplines of behavioral sciences, social psychology, cognitive psychology, communication studies, and sociology. Finally, the paper outlines future research programs in five major directions for further development of the field. Taking the opportunity to commemorate the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, the authors attempt to draw the first sketch of the science of cyber behavior from the perspective of history of science.

Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert A. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
Substantive Rationality ◽  
Human Rationality

This article compares two theories of human rationality that have found application in political science: procedural, bounded rationality from contemporary cognitive psychology, and global, substantive rationality from economics. Using examples drawn from the recent literature of political science, it examines the relative roles played by the rationality principle and by auxiliary assumptions (e.g., assumptions about the content of actors' goals) in explaining human behavior in political contexts, and concludes that the model predictions rest primarily on the auxiliary assumptions rather than deriving from the rationality principle.The analysis implies that the principle of rationality, unless accompanied by extensive empirical research to identify the correct auxiliary assumptions, has little power to make valid predictions about political phenomena.

scholarly journals Contemporary architecture and scientific development

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Gabriela Celani ◽  
Leandro Medrano
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Architectural Treatises ◽  
Effective Contribution

In the last fifteen hundred years there has been a paradigmatic shift, science has replaced architectural treatises, and scientific methods are used to justify technical and even aesthetical decisions. The present issue of PARC – Research in Architecture and Construction – presents ten examples of the use of such methods for the production of buildings and the analysis of space. They range from the use of cognitive psychology for the conceptual phases of design and the simulation of human behavior by computer agents to the application of syntactic methods for the analysis of space. With this issue, we expect to contribute to the discussion about the effective contribution of science to the quality of the built space.

scholarly journals Neuronal connectivity, regional differentiation, and brain damage in humans

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 854-855
Author(s):  
Dahlia W. Zaidel
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Cerebral Hemispheres ◽  
Regional Differentiation ◽  
Neuronal Connectivity ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Brain

When circumscribed brain regions are damaged in humans, highly specific impairments in language, memory, problem solving, and cognition are observed. Neurosurgery such as “split brain” or hemispherectomy, for example, has shown that encompassing regions, the left and right cerebral hemispheres, each control human behavior in unique ways. Observations stretching over 100 years of patients with unilateral focal brain damage have revealed, without the theoretical benefits of “cognitive neuroscience” or “cognitive psychology,” that human behavior is indeed controlled by the brain and its neurons.

scholarly journals TouchScope: A passive-haptic reading device to investigate tactile perception

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Baciero ◽  
Manuel Perea ◽  
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia ◽  
Pablo Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Stimulus Presentation ◽  
Software Implementation ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Reading Device ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Sense Of Touch

The sense of touch is underrepresented in cognitive psychology research. One of the reasons is that controlling the timing of stimulus presentation, which is a hallmark of cognitive research, is significantly more difficult for tactile stimuli than visual or auditory stimuli. To contribute to the development of tactile research, we present a system to display tactile stimuli and collect response time with the capability for static and dynamic (passive haptic) stimuli presentation. While the system requires some construction, it can be put together with commercially available materials. We present here the hardware and software implementation and some examples of experiments.

Diffusion Models in Experimental Psychology

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 385-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Voss ◽  
Markus Nagler ◽  
Veronika Lerche
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Diffusion Models ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Binary Decision ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Decision Biases ◽  
Response Time Distributions

Stochastic diffusion models ( Ratcliff, 1978 ) can be used to analyze response time data from binary decision tasks. They provide detailed information about cognitive processes underlying the performance in such tasks. Most importantly, different parameters are estimated from the response time distributions of correct responses and errors that map (1) the speed of information uptake, (2) the amount of information used to make a decision, (3) possible decision biases, and (4) the duration of nondecisional processes. Although this kind of model can be applied to many experimental paradigms and provides much more insight than the analysis of mean response times can, it is still rarely used in cognitive psychology. In the present paper, we provide comprehensive information on the theory of the diffusion model, as well as on practical issues that have to be considered for implementing the model.

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