The Poisson shot noise model of visual short-term memory and choice response time: Normalized coding by neural population size

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-52

  Smith, Philip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Diffusion process; Response time; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955096377     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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