Psychological interpretation of the ex-gaussian and shifted wald parameters: A diffusion model analysis

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 798-817

  Matzke, Dora ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 72449132133     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.798     Document Type: Article

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