Noncontextuality with marginal selectivity in reconstructing mental architectures

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Ru ^a   Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interaction contrast; mental architectures; noncontextuality; response time; selective influences; series parallel network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963686860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00735     Document Type: Article

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