Correcting for false alarms in a simple reaction time task

Brain Research

Volumn 1122, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-115

  Tiefenau, Andreas ^a,b   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   von Specht, Hellmut ^b   Heil, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

False positive; Race model; Reaction time; Response bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750743708     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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