A simple two-stage model predicts response time distributions

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4051-4062

  Carpenter, R H S ^a,c   Reddi, B A J ^a   Anderson, A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MODEL; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NOISE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TWO STAGE MODEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949163553     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.173955     Document Type: Article

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