Author: msauter
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Running Behavioral Experiments Online: A Quick How-To
Building behavioral experiments online can feel daunting at first, but it’s becoming a crucial skill for researchers who want to reach a broad and diverse audience. Whether you’re moving online out of necessity—due to lab closures or difficulties recruiting participants… Continue reading
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Predicting Learning Success in E-Learning with Eye Tracking
We recently explored whether our eye movements during online learning could reveal how well we’re understanding the material. With my colleagues, I ran two studies on eye-tracking in educational videos, and we found some pretty exciting insights into how students’… Continue reading
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Why do we get ‘stuck’ on distractions?
We recently published a study on what happens when we get distracted during a visual search. Imagine you’re looking for your keys on a cluttered table. Sometimes, your eyes land on something shiny, like a coin, and you end up… Continue reading
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When Your Brain Won’t Let Go: Eye-Tracking Phobias One Blink at a Time
You know that feeling when you can’t stop looking at something terrifying? Like when you know that spider in the corner isn’t going to leap across the room and attack you, but your brain’s like, “Yeah, but what if…?” Well,… Continue reading
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Speed and Reliability: Touch vs. Mouse in Visual Foraging – Explained Simply
So I recently published a research article comparing two input methods—touchscreens and the humble computer mouse—on a task called visual foraging. It’s a fancy way of saying “looking for stuff on a screen.” Most psychology research focuses on finding a… Continue reading
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How I Ended Up Creating an AI-Generated Psychology Song Album
So, here’s something I never expected to say: I created a song album about psychology using AI. It’s called “Minds In Motion,” and the idea behind it? To experiment with new ways of teaching and learning, especially as AI starts… Continue reading
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The Inevitable AI Revolution: Why Researchers Must Embrace the Future of Scientific Writing
The world of scientific research and communication has evolved rapidly over the past few decades, but some researchers are still clinging to the past, insisting that authoring a manuscript is the most essential part of being a researcher. However, with… Continue reading
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The Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz Reform: A Crisis for Postdocs and a Blow to German Universities’ Academic Employees
As a postdoc myself, I am deeply concerned by the proposed reform of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG), which threatens the livelihood and career prospects of my peers and jeopardizes the middle tier (“Mittelbau”) of German universities. While the coalition’s agreement claims… Continue reading
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Statistical learning of frequent distractor locations in visual search: A role for post-selective distractor rejection processes?
New preprint on PsyArxiv. Marian Sauter, Institute for Psychology, Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany sauter.marian@gmail.comNina M. Hanning, Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, GermanyHeinrich R. Liesefeld, Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, GermanyHermann J. Müller, Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany People… Continue reading
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Do input modalities matter? Speed and reliability of touch inputs and mouse inputs in visual foraging
New preprint on PsyArxiv. Marian Sauter, Institute of Psycholog, Bundeswehr University MunichWolfgang Mack, Institute of Psycholog, Bundeswehr University Munich Visual attention is usually investigated in a variant of the visual search paradigm with a single search target to find in… Continue reading
