Early evidence affects later decisions: Why evidence accumulation is required to explain response time data

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 777-784

  Winkel, Jasper ^a   Keuken, Max C ^a,b   van Maanen, Leendert ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Forstmann, Birte U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Drift diffusion model; Evidence accumulation; Urgency gating model

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901305320     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0551-8     Document Type: Article

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