1/ fα noise in reaction times: A proposed model based on Piéron's law and information processing

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Medina, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FACE RECOGNITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; HUMAN REACTION TIME; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

BROWNIAN MOTIONS; COUPLED NEURONS; FRACTAL LIKES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HUMAN REACTIONS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL-BASED; NEURAL MODELS; NEURAL PROCESS; NOISE-INDUCED SYNCHRONIZATIONS; NON-LINEAR BEHAVIORS; POWER FUNCTIONS; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SENSORY STIMULUS; SINGLE NEURONS; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 58949101086     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.011902     Document Type: Article

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