The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model

Psychological Review

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 550-592

  Usher, Marius ^a   McClelland, James L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TIME; VISION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85047685362     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.3.550     Document Type: Article

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