Modeling Confidence and Response Time in Recognition Memory

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-83

  Ratcliff, Roger ^a   Starns, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

receiver operating characteristics; recognition memory models; sequential sampling models; signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 60749135031     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014086     Document Type: Article

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