Frouke Hermens
Biographic Data
| ID | 2750606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frouke Hermens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frouke |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermens |
| SIGNATURE | HERMENS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of the Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0488-155X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Measuring Sexual Preference With Mouse Tracking and Machine Learning
Various methods have been proposed to measure a person’s sexual preference, but most of these methods have not been evaluated on a yet unseen sample of participants. We examine here the importance of using an unseen sample with the recently introduced mouse tracking method, which has been previously shown to produce reliable group differences in trajectories. To this end, we applied machine learning on data from a mouse tracking task with 52 self…
Hands can play equal roles in bimanual single-object rotations
When the two hands carry out tasks simultaneously, interactions arise between them, but the way those interactions relate to the specializations of the hands is not fully understood. Much of the existing work on this topic has examined bimanual tasks in which the two hands can act independently. Here, we took a different approach by focusing on actions in which the two hands are physically coupled through the manipulation of a single object. We a…
Eyes don't lie
Past research has suggested that eye movements can be used to uncover perpetrators of a crime to some extent (around 65 % accuracy). We extended this work to examine whether similar or better results could be obtained for eyewitnesses by employing a data-driven eye-tracking approach. We expect that participants who saw the crime before: (1) look more at where the crime happened, (2) differ in the frame-by-frame viewing location, and (3) differ in…
Motor Control, for Instance
One of Gordon Logan's notable contributions was his demonstration that stored instances of previous stimulus–response mappings provide a useful substrate for effective performance. The principle was initially demonstrated in alphabet–arithmetic tasks (Logan, 1988) but later was applied to reading (Logan, 1997), attention and memory (Logan, 2002), and typewriting (Crump et al., 2019). If reliance on stored instances is fundamental, one would expec…
The construct validity of attitudes toward sex offenders ( ATS ) scale
Negative attitudes toward offenders may hinder the rehabilitation process. The present study examines the relationship between attitudes toward sex offenders and stated acceptance of offenders and non‐offenders into various aspects of daily life. Sixty female members of the public (18–50 years old, UK residents, recruited by word of mouth and via social media) completed an attitudes towards sex offenders (ATS) scale and indicated for each of eigh…
The use of machine learning to understand the role of visual attention in multi-attribute choice
Whether eye movements (as a measure of visual attention) contribute to the understanding of how multi-attribute decisions are made, is still a matter of debate. In this study, we show how machine learning methods can be used to separate the effects of the information presented, eye movement patterns, and attention to specific information. We also show how to deal with data from a relatively small sample of participants, often found in eye trackin…
Acting with the feet and hands
To act effectively, one must select actions that satisfy performance criteria. The more important the criteria, the more important it is to satisfy them. This idea leads to the suggestion that a goal of research on action selection should be determining the relative importance of different performance criteria. We pursued this aim by focused on a physical action task: walking to a table, picking up a box with two hands, and moving the box back an…
Thinking on your feet
Effective handling of objects requires proper use of the hands. If the object handling is done while standing or walking, it also requires proper use of the feet. We asked how people position their feet to meet future and ongoing object-handling demands. In previous research on this topic, participants walked to a table and picked up an object for a single displacement from one place to another. These studies shed light on sensitivity to kinemati…
The influence of social and symbolic cues on observers' gaze behaviour
Research has shown that social and symbolic cues presented in isolation and at fixation have strong effects on observers, but it is unclear how cues compare when they are presented away from fixation and embedded in natural scenes. We here compare the effects of two types of social cue (gaze and pointing gestures) and one type of symbolic cue (arrow signs) on eye movements of observers under two viewing conditions (free viewing vs. a memory task)…
Eye Movements in Risky Choice
We asked participants to make simple risky choices while we recorded their eye movements. We built a complete statistical model of the eye movements and found very little systematic variation in eye movements over the time course of a choice or across the different choices. The only exceptions were finding more (of the same) eye movements when choice options were similar, and an emerging gaze bias in which people looked more at the gamble they ul…
Eye Movements in Risky Choice
We asked participants to make simple risky choices while we recorded their eye movements. We built a complete statistical model of the eye movements and found very little systematic variation in eye movements over the time course of a choice or across the different choices. The only exceptions were finding more (of the same) eye movements when choice options were similar, and an emerging gaze bias in which people looked more at the gamble they ul…
Eye Movements in Risky Choice
We asked participants to make simple risky choices while we recorded their eye movements. We built a complete statistical model of the eye movements and found very little systematic variation in eye movements over the time course of a choice or across the different choices. The only exceptions were finding more (of the same) eye movements when choice options were similar, and an emerging gaze bias in which people looked more at the gamble they ul…
The influence of social and symbolic cues on observers' gaze behaviour
Research has shown that social and symbolic cues presented in isolation and at fixation have strong effects on observers, but it is unclear how cues compare when they are presented away from fixation and embedded in natural scenes. We here compare the effects of two types of social cue (gaze and pointing gestures) and one type of symbolic cue (arrow signs) on eye movements of observers under two viewing conditions (free viewing vs. a memory task)…
Thinking on your feet
Effective handling of objects requires proper use of the hands. If the object handling is done while standing or walking, it also requires proper use of the feet. We asked how people position their feet to meet future and ongoing object-handling demands. In previous research on this topic, participants walked to a table and picked up an object for a single displacement from one place to another. These studies shed light on sensitivity to kinemati…
The construct validity of attitudes toward sex offenders ( ATS ) scale
Negative attitudes toward offenders may hinder the rehabilitation process. The present study examines the relationship between attitudes toward sex offenders and stated acceptance of offenders and non‐offenders into various aspects of daily life. Sixty female members of the public (18–50 years old, UK residents, recruited by word of mouth and via social media) completed an attitudes towards sex offenders (ATS) scale and indicated for each of eigh…
The use of machine learning to understand the role of visual attention in multi-attribute choice
Whether eye movements (as a measure of visual attention) contribute to the understanding of how multi-attribute decisions are made, is still a matter of debate. In this study, we show how machine learning methods can be used to separate the effects of the information presented, eye movement patterns, and attention to specific information. We also show how to deal with data from a relatively small sample of participants, often found in eye trackin…
Acting with the feet and hands
To act effectively, one must select actions that satisfy performance criteria. The more important the criteria, the more important it is to satisfy them. This idea leads to the suggestion that a goal of research on action selection should be determining the relative importance of different performance criteria. We pursued this aim by focused on a physical action task: walking to a table, picking up a box with two hands, and moving the box back an…
Motor Control, for Instance
One of Gordon Logan's notable contributions was his demonstration that stored instances of previous stimulus–response mappings provide a useful substrate for effective performance. The principle was initially demonstrated in alphabet–arithmetic tasks (Logan, 1988) but later was applied to reading (Logan, 1997), attention and memory (Logan, 2002), and typewriting (Crump et al., 2019). If reliance on stored instances is fundamental, one would expec…
Measuring Sexual Preference With Mouse Tracking and Machine Learning
Various methods have been proposed to measure a person’s sexual preference, but most of these methods have not been evaluated on a yet unseen sample of participants. We examine here the importance of using an unseen sample with the recently introduced mouse tracking method, which has been previously shown to produce reliable group differences in trajectories. To this end, we applied machine learning on data from a mouse tracking task with 52 self…
Hands can play equal roles in bimanual single-object rotations
When the two hands carry out tasks simultaneously, interactions arise between them, but the way those interactions relate to the specializations of the hands is not fully understood. Much of the existing work on this topic has examined bimanual tasks in which the two hands can act independently. Here, we took a different approach by focusing on actions in which the two hands are physically coupled through the manipulation of a single object. We a…
Eyes don't lie
Past research has suggested that eye movements can be used to uncover perpetrators of a crime to some extent (around 65 % accuracy). We extended this work to examine whether similar or better results could be obtained for eyewitnesses by employing a data-driven eye-tracking approach. We expect that participants who saw the crime before: (1) look more at where the crime happened, (2) differ in the frame-by-frame viewing location, and (3) differ in…
Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Motor Control and Adaptation (4 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Task (project management) (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer vision (2 works)