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- Title
A tutorial on capturing mental representations through drawing and crowd-sourced scoring.
- Authors
Bainbridge, Wilma A.
- Abstract
When we draw, we are depicting a rich mental representation reflecting a memory, percept, schema, imagination, or feeling. In spite of the abundance of data created by drawings, drawings are rarely used as an output measure in the field of psychology, due to concerns about their large variance and their difficulty of quantification. However, recent work leveraging pen-tracking, computer vision, and online crowd-sourcing has revealed new ways to capture and objectively quantify drawings, to answer a wide range of questions across fields of psychology. Here, I present a tutorial on modern methods for drawing experiments, ranging from how to quantify pen-and-paper type studies, up to how to administer a fully closed-loop online experiment. I go through the concrete steps of designing a drawing experiment, recording drawings, and objectively quantifying them through online crowd-sourcing and computer vision methods. Included with this tutorial are code examples at different levels of complexity and tutorials designed to teach basic lessons about web architecture and be useful regardless of skill level. I also discuss key methodological points of consideration, and provide a series of potential jumping points for drawing studies across fields in psychology. I hope this tutorial will arm more researchers with the skills to capture these naturalistic snapshots of a mental image.
- Subjects
COMPUTER vision; MENTAL imagery; MENTAL representation; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2022, Vol 54, Issue 2, p663
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-021-01672-9