Using time-varying evidence to test models of decision dynamics: Bounded diffusion vs. The leaky competing accumulator model

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Tsetsos, Konstantinos ^a   Gao, Juan ^b   McClelland, James L ^b   Usher, Marius ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bounded diffusion; Lca; Non stationary evidence; Order effects; Perceptual choice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOUNDED DIFFUSION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; COMPETITION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEAY COMPETING ACCUMULATOR; MALE; MOTION; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84862867391     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00079     Document Type: Article

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