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. 2025 Sep 24;57(11):297. doi: 10.3758/s13428-025-02805-0

Table 1.

Extracted cursor measures

Cursor measures name Short description Source
Acceleration changes (accChanges) Number of times the mouse cursor acceleration changes signs Cranford & Moss, 2018
Average deviation (AD) Average deviation from an optimal trajectory Wulff et al. in press
Area under the curve (AUC) Area between optimal and actual trajectory Wirth et al. 2020
Curvature Length of actual trajectory divided by length of optimal trajectory Wirth et al. 2020
Maximum absolute deviation (MAD) Maximum distance from the actual trajectory to the optimal trajectory Wirth et al. 2020
Maximum absolute deviation above the optimal trajectory (MADabove) Same as MAD except only distances towards the alternative response option are considered Wulff et al. in press
Maximum acceleration (maxAcc) Maximum acceleration Wulff et al. in press
Maximum velocity (maxVel) Maximum velocity Wulff et al. in press
Mean velocity (meanVel) Mean velocity -
Minimum velocity (minVel) Minimum velocity -
Minimum X (minX) Minimal distance to alternative response in x-coordinates Wirth et al. 2020
Motor pauses Time in seconds in which the mouse cursor was not moved Wulff et al. in press
Motion time Time in seconds in which the mouse cursor was moved Wulff et al. in press
Reversals Number of times the cursor traversed the midline of the screen Wulff et al. in press
Sample entropy for x-coordinates (sampleEnX) Complexity measure for x-coordinates of cursor trajectory Wirth et al. 2020, Hehman et al., 2015
Time to peak acceleration (timeToPeakAcc) Time in seconds until the maximum acceleration in trajectory is reached Wirth et al. 2020
Time to peak velocity (timeToPeakVel) Time in seconds until the maximum velocity in trajectory is reached Wirth et al. 2020
xFlips Number of times the movement direction in x-coordinates changes Wirth et al. 2020

Note. Overview of extracted cursor measures, with a short description and source. Measures without source are basic measures that were added by the authors; for all cursor measures from the literature that were not implemented, see Table 3