Optimal decision making in neural inhibition models

Psychological Review

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 201-215

  van Ravenzwaaij, Don ^a   van der Maas, Han L J ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drift diffusion model; Feedforward inhibition model; Leaky competing accumulator model; Model equivalence; Phase planes

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NOTE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COERCION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHYSICS;

EID: 84859782584     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026275     Document Type: Article

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