Observing evidence accumulation during multi-alternative decisions

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 453-462

  Brown, Scott ^a   Steyvers, Mark ^b   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hick's Law; Optimal observer models; Probabilistic inference; Speed accuracy tradeoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450237193     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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