A diffusion model decomposition of the practice effect

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1026-1036

  Dutilh, Gilles ^a   Vandekerckhove, Joachim ^b   Tuerlinckx, Francis ^b   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 74849140459     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/16.6.1026     Document Type: Article

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