The diffusion model is not a deterministic growth model: Comment on Jones and Dzhafarov (2014)

Psychological Review

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 679-688

  Smith, Philip L ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^b   McKoon, Gail ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision; Diffusion; Response time; Sequential sampling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84925752260     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037667     Document Type: Article

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