Decision strategies for the A Not-A, 2AFC and 2AFC-reminder tasks: Empirical tests

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 433-442

  Hautus, Michael J ^a   Shepherd, Daniel ^b   Peng, Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Criterion; Criterion; 2AFC; 2AFCR; A Not A; Cognitive strategy; Decision strategy; Difference test; Duo trio; ROC curve; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953718441     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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