Showing that the race model inequality is not violated

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 248-255

  Gondan, Matthias ^a   Riehl, Verena ^b   Blurton, Steven P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Divided attention; Model testing and validation; Non inferiority

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856887449     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0147-z     Document Type: Article

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