Estimating the difference limen in 2AFC tasks: Pitfalls and improved estimators

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1219-1227

  Ulrich, Rolf ^a   Vorberg, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349504200     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.6.1219     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bush, R. R. (1967). Estimation and evaluation. In R. D. Luce, R. R. Bush, & E. Galanter (Eds.), Handbook of mathematical psychology (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 429-469). New York: Wiley.
2. Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D., & Hellström, Å. (2008). Psychophysical issues in the study of time perception. In S. Grondin (Ed.), Psychology of time (pp. 75-109). Bingely, U.K.: Emerald.
3. Fechner, G. T. (1860). Elemente der Psychophysik (Erster Teil) [Elements of Psychophysics (Vol. 1)]. Leipzig, Germany: Breitkopf & Härtel. [Citation is based on the third unchanged edition, which was published in 1907 by Breitkopf & Härtel]
4. Gescheider, G. A. (1997). Psychophysics: The fundamentals (3rd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
5. Green, D. M., & Swets, J. A. (1973). Signal detection theory and psychophysics. New York: Wiley. [1988 reprint edition published by Peninsula Publishing, Los Altos, CA]
6. Guilford, J. P. (1954). Psychometric methods (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
7. Hairston, I. S., & Nagarajan, S. S. (2007). Neural mechanisms of the time-order error: An MEG study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1163-1174.
8. Harvey, L. O. J. (1986). Efficient estimation of sensory thresholds. Be havior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 18, 623-632.
9. Hellström, Å. (1985). The time-order error and its relatives: Mirrors of cognitive processing in comparing. Psychological Bulletin, 97, 35-61.
10. Klein, S. A. (2001). Measuring, estimating, and understanding the psychometric function: A commentary. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 1421-1455.
11. Lapid, E., Ulrich, R., & Rammsayer, T. (2008). On estimating the difference limen in duration discrimination tasks: A comparison of the 2AFC and the reminder task. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 291-305.
12. Luce, R. D., & Galanter, E. (1967). Discrimination. In R. D. Luce, R. R. Bush, & E. Galanter (Eds.), Handbook of mathematical psychology (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 191-244). New York: Wiley.
13. Macmillan, N. A., & Creelman, C. D. (2005). Detection theory: A user's guide (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
14. Morgan, M. J., Watamaniuk, S. N. J., & McKee, S. P. (2000). The use of an implicit standard for measuring discrimination thresholds. Vision Research, 40, 2341-2349.
15. Nachmias, J. (2006). The role of virtual standards in visual discrimination. Vision Research, 46, 2456-2464.
16. Simpson, W. A. (1989). The step method: A new adaptive psychophysical procedure. Perception & Psychophysics, 45, 572-576.
17. Ulrich, R., & Miller, J. (2004). Threshold estimation in two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) tasks: The Spearman-Kärber method. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 517-533.
18. Ulrich, R., Nitschke, J., & Rammsayer, T. (2006). Crossmodal temporal discrimination: Assessing the predictions of a general pacemaker-counter model. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1140-1152.
19. Wichmann, F. A., & Hill, N. J. (2001). The psychometric function: I. Fitting, sampling, and goodness of fit. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 1293-1313.
20. Wickens, T. D. (2002). Elementary signal detection theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
21. Woodrow, H. (1935). The effect of practice on time-order errors in the comparison of temporal intervals. Psychological Review, 42, 127-152.
22. Yeshurun, Y., Carrasco, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2008). Bias and sensitivity in two-interval forced choice procedures: Tests of the difference model. Vision Research, 48, 1837-1851.