Survivor interaction contrast wiggle predictions of parallel and serial models for an arbitrary number of processes

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-32

  Yang, Haiyuan ^a   Fific, Mario ^b   Townsend, James T ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human information processing; Logarithmic concavity; Multi processes; Survivor interaction contrast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890820469     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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