Mechanisms of speed-accuracy tradeoff: Evidence from covert motor processes

Biological Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 173-199

  Osman, Allen ^a   Lou, Lianggang ^b   Muller Gethmann, Hiltraut ^c   Rinkenauer, Gerhard ^c   Mattes, Stefan ^c   Ulrich, Rolf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lateralized readiness potentials; Macro tradeoff; Micro tradeoff; Reaction time; Speed accuracy tradeoff

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033965977     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(99)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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