Disentangling decision models: From independence to competition

Psychological Review

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-38

  Teodorescu, Andrei R ^a   Usher, Marius ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Competition; Diffusion; Independent models; LCA; Sequential sampling

Indexed keywords

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

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84881098150     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030776     Document Type: Article

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