Omar Jubran

• The primary focus of this work was on exploring the utility of VR and continuous response tracking in psychological experiments. Continuous tracking elucidates the fine-grained dynamics of decision-making. Distributional methods, such as Survival analysis (SA) and my newly developed method, Spatiotemporal Survival Analysis (StSA) served as the primary tool to analyze these responses. Studying the time-course of behavior in classical paradigms can deepen our insight into the cognitive processes, such as working memory and response conflict. This methodology not only sheds new light on classical paradigms but also establishes a groundwork for future research aiming to unravel the complexities of cognitive processes in experimental contexts. This work also sets out to demonstrate how it is possible to preserve the legacy of prior well established experimental paradigms in VR. In a series of experiments, VR was used to replicate findings in tasks related to visual perception (chapter 4) and working memory (chapters 5 and 6). These experiments demonstrate that, not only can classical results be replicated in VR, but that this technology enables a more fine-grained understanding of human behavior, relying on continuous tracking of response behavior (demonstrated by chapter 5). Finally, this work concludes with remarks on the future of experiments in VR and the utility of Survival Analysis using continuous movement trajectory data.