The race model inequality for censored reaction time distributions

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 839-847

  Rach, Stefan ^a,b   Diederich, Adele ^b   Hans Colonius, Rike Steenken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77955296873     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.3.839     Document Type: Article

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