Modeling perceptual discrimination in dynamic noise: Time-changed diffusion and release from inhibition

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-113

  Smith, Philip L ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^b   Sewell, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Discrimination; Reaction time; Response time; Sequential sampling; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902084120     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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