Dispersion of Response Times Reveals Cognitive Dynamics

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 318-342

  Holden, John G ^a   Van Orden, Guy C ^b   Turvey, Michael T ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; power laws; response time distributions; self organization; word naming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COGNITION; FRACTALS; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 65349155674     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014849     Document Type: Article

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