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Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization
Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization, Written by a distinguished mathematical psychologist, this authoritative volume provides a clear, well-balanced, and comprehensive treatment of the mathematical theory of human response time and the role it plays in our understanding of the mind's structu, Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization
  • Written by author R. Duncan Luce
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, May 1991
  • Written by a distinguished mathematical psychologist, this authoritative volume provides a clear, well-balanced, and comprehensive treatment of the mathematical theory of human response time and the role it plays in our understanding of the mind's structu
  • Written by a distinguished psychologist, this book is an integrated treatment of the mathematical theory of human response times. Professor Luce provides a comprehensive, well-balanced, and clear review of the experimental data and puts forth the relevanc
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1.Representing Response Times as Random Variables1
1.1The Study of Response Times1
1.2Random Variables7
1.3Several Random Variables20
1.4Generating Functions30
1.5Elementary Concepts of Stochastic Processes41
Part I.Detection Paradigms47
2.Simple Reaction Times: Basic Data49
2.1The Problem49
2.2The Simple Reaction-Time Paradigm51
2.3Effect of Signal Properties on Reaction Time58
2.4Effect of Foreperiod on Reaction Time71
2.5Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff81
2.6The Response and Reaction Time90
2.7What Faces a Model Builder?94
3.Decomposition into Decision and Residual Latencies96
3.1Independent, Additive Stage Latencies96
3.2Specific Assumptions99
3.3Manipulation of Stages114
3.4Conclusions121
4.Distributions of Simple Decision Latencies122
4.1Empirical Distributions122
4.2Discrete-Time, Information-Accumulation Detectors139
4.3Continuous-Time, Information-Accumulation Detectors149
4.4Race Between Level and Change Detectors159
4.5Conclusions173
5.Detection of Signals Presented at Irregular Times175
5.1Introduction175
5.2Vigilance at Low Signal Rates176
5.3Vigilance at High Signal Rates178
5.4Interaction of Two Signals in Close Succession185
5.5Conclusions200
Part II.Identification Paradigms203
6.Two-Choice Reaction Times: Basic Ideas and Data205
6.1General Considerations205
6.2Relations to Simple Reaction Times208
6.3A Conceptual Scheme for Tradeoffs218
6.4Discriminability and Accuracy224
6.5Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff236
6.6Sequential Effects253
6.7Conclusions271
7.Mixture Models273
7.1Two-State Mixtures274
7.2A Linear Operator Model for Sequential Effects278
7.3Data With Few Response Errors281
7.4The Fast Guess Account of Errors286
7.5A Three-State, Fast-Guess, Memory Model294
7.6Data With Response Errors: Highly Discriminable Stimuli299
7.7Data With Response Errors: Confusable Signals308
7.8Conclusions316
8.Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Discrete Time319
8.1Accumulator Models320
8.2Random Walks With Boundaries326
8.3Restrictions on the Random Walk Model340
8.4Modifications of the Random Walk349
8.5Data352
8.6Conclusions366
9.Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Continuous Time367
9.1Introduction367
9.2Additive Processes368
9.3Renewal Processes379
9.4Conclusions388
10.Absolute Identification of More Than Two Signals389
10.1Types of Designs with More than Two Signals389
10.2Experiments with Few Errors: Mean Times390
10.3Experiments with Few Errors: Sequential Effects399
10.4Experiments With Errors410
10.5Conclusions421
Part III.Matching Paradigms423
11.Memory Scanning, Visual Search, and Same-Difference Designs425
11.1Memory Scanning and Visual Search425
11.2The Serial, Exhaustive Search Model427
11.3Alternative Models431
11.4Same-Difference experiments445
11.5Conclusions454
12.Processing Stages and Strategies456
12.1Introduction456
12.2Serial-Parallel Equivalences457
12.3Simultaneous Accounts of Several Experiments464
12.4Selective Manipulation of Stages472
12.5Conclusions490
Appendixes493
A.Asymptotic Results for Independent Random Variables495
A.1Serial Models: Sum of Random Variables495
A.2Parallel Models: Maxima of Independent Identical Random Variables502
B.Properties of Continuous Distributions for Simple Reaction Times507
B.1Theoretically Based Distributions507
B.2Ad Hoc Distributions510
C.Experimental Data512
C.1Yellott (1971), Experiment 3 Data512
C.2Ollman (1970), Experiment 2 Data514
C.3Laming (1968), Experiment 2 Data515
C.4Link (1975) Data515
C.5Carterette, Friedman, and Cosmides (1965) Data516
C.6Green and Luce (1973) Data517
C.7Green, Smith, and von Gierke (1983) Data519
C.8Laming (1968), Experiment 6 Data520
References521
Author Index547
Subject Index554


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