Fictitious Inhibitory Differences: How Skewness and Slowing Distort the Estimation of Stopping Latencies

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 352-362

  Verbruggen, Frederick ^a   Chambers, Christopher D ^b   Logan, Gordon D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

reaction time; response inhibition; task analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875039725     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612457390     Document Type: Article

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