An EZ-diffusion model for response time and accuracy

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-22

  Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Van Der Maas, Han L J ^a   Grasman, Raoul P P P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447310882     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194023     Document Type: Article

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