Response time distributions: Some simple effects of factors selectively influencing mental processes

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 269-288

  Schweickert, Richard ^a   Giorgini, Mass ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; REACTION TIME; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033139196     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212330     Document Type: Article

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