Decision making and memory: A critique of Juslin and Olsson's (1997) sampling model of sensory discrimination

Psychological Review

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 789-804

  Vickers, Douglas ^a   Pietsch, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 85047682177     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.789     Document Type: Article

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