Numerical predictions for serial, parallel, and coactive logical rule-based models of categorization response time

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1148-1156

  Little, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information processing architecture; Response times; Serial parallel processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84870479261     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0202-4     Document Type: Article

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