Discriminating evidence accumulation from urgency signals in speeded decision making

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-47

  Hawkins, Guy E ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^b   Brown, Scott D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evidence accumulation; Mathematical model; Response time; Urgency gating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84939779138     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00088.2015     Document Type: Article

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