Dr. Marian Sauter

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

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

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

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

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