A diffusion model account of response time and accuracy in a brightness discrimination task: Fitting real data and failing to fit fake but plausible data

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 278-291

  Ratcliff, Roger ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 0036618053     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196283     Document Type: Article

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