Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization

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Oxford University Press, May 23, 1991 - Psychology
This authoritative volume provides a 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 organization.
 

Contents

Representing Response Times as Random Variables
1
Basic Data
49
Decomposition into Decision and Residual Latencies
96
Distributions of Simple Decision Latencies
122
Criterion
165
Mixture Models
273
Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Discrete Time
319
Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Continuous Time
367
Memory Scanning Visual Search and SameDifference Designs
425
Processing Stages and Strategies
456
A Asymptotic Results for Independent Random Variables
495
B Properties of Continuous Distributions for Simple Reaction Times
507
References
521
Author Index
547
Subject Index
554
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Absolute Identification of More Than Two Signals
389

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