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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Dr. Matthew Warburton and I put together a guide on "how to conduct behavioural experiments online"—something we wish we had when we were getting started. Hopefully it’s useful, and we’d very much welcome any feedback!

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Matthew Warburton @mwarb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

New preprint with @tsay.bsky.social. We synthesise the literature and our experience conducting sensorimotor experiments online to present ten principles for crowdsourcing human behaviour online, giving guidance on navigating the benefits and pitfalls of online testing osf.io/preprints/ps...

A flowchart of how our ten principles fit together. The flowchart starts with an online experiment idea. Principles 1 through 4 are, in order, Maximize the advantages; Plan for technical variability; Plan for behavioral variability; and Validate your experiment. At this point, researchers must decide whether the trade-off of pros to cons favors conducting the experiment online. The experiment then passes through: Recruit participants strategically; Instruct clearly; Make it engaging; Collect data comprehensively; Respect your participants; and Make it discoverable. This then loops back to a new online experiment idea, using all of the learnings to improve future experiments.

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Matthew Warburton @mwarb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New work led by Max Townsend showing that the strategic response to a visuomotor rotation ('explicit adaptation') is best described as insight learning, rather than gradual error-based or explorative learning. Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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An 'Aha!' moment precedes the strategic response to a visuomotor rotation

Strategic behaviour in sensorimotor adaptation tasks is typically modelled either as an error minimisation process or as a process of learning through trial-and-error. The former predicts a gradual re...

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Matthew Warburton @mwarb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Early release! We found that visuomotor adaptation transfers across contexts where movement drives oppositely-directed visual motion (cursor moving toward the target vs target moving to the cursor). We believe this says something interesting about theories of internal models doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

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Visuomotor memory is not bound to visual motion

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Matthew Warburton @mwarb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Now published: doi.org/10.1007/s004... We demonstrate that cursor movements differ depending on the input device used in online experiments. Given that cursor movements are increasingly used to investigate ongoing perceptual, cognitive, and motoric processes, it is an important variable to consider

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Input device matters for measures of behaviour in online experiments - Psychological Research

Studies of perception, cognition, and action increasingly rely on measures derived from the movements of a cursor to investigate how psychological processes unfold over time. This method is one of the...

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Matthew Warburton @mwarb.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

New preprint 📣 We demonstrate that many measures extracted from cursor movements differ between mouse and trackpads. Given input devices typically cannot be controlled in online experiments, it is important to account for this variable. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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