A Phase Transition Model for the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Response Time Experiments

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-250

  Dutilh, Gilles ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Visser, Ingmar ^a   Van Der Maas, Han L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Fast guess model; Phase transitions; Reponse times; Sequential sampling models; Speed accuracy trade off

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 79751505138     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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