Receiver Operating Characteristics in the Lexical Decision Task: Evidence for a Simple Signal-Detection Process Simulated by the Multiple Read-Out Model

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 481-488

  Jacobs, Arthur M ^b   Graf, Ralf ^b   Kinder, Annette ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; READING; RECOGNITION; ROC CURVE;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 0042410947     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.3.481     Document Type: Article

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