Response times : their role in inferring elementary mental organization
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Response times : their role in inferring elementary mental organization
（Oxford psychology series, no. 8）
Oxford University Press , Claredenon Press, 1986
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Bibliography: p. 521-545
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780195036428
Description
Response times are a fascinating source of information on how the mind is organized - the time taken to carry out an action tells us something about the choice process involved.
This is a critical but even-handed treatment of the major themes of how response times play a role in our thinking about the mind. Professor Luce provides a comprehensive, clear review of the experimental data, and puts forward the idea of the hazard function - a novel and important approach that he and his colleagues have developed. This function, based on the probability that an reaction is about to occur given that no reaction has occurred so far during a trial, exaggerates the differences
that normal analysis methods often obscure. This enables the researcher to rule out more confidently known mechanisms of time delay in human performance.
Since measurements of response times are widely used by experimental psychologists as one approach to distinguishing between theories of intellectual functioning, the conceptual arguments that Professor Luce brings to bear on mathematical models of response time are of great relevance to mathematical and experimental psychologists.
Table of Contents
- Representing response times as random variables
- DETECTION PARADIGMS: Simple reaction times: basic data
- Decomposition into decision and residual latencies
- Distribution of simple decision latencies
- Detection of signals presented at irregular times
- IDENTIFICATION PARADIGMS: Two-choice reaction times: basic ideas and data
- Mixture models
- Stochastic accumulation of information in discrete time
- Stochastic accumulation of information in continuous time
- Absolute identification of more than two signals
- MATCHING PARADIGMS: Memory scanning, visual search, and same-difference designs
- Processing stages and strategies
- Appendixes
- References
- Indexes.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195070019
Description
Written by a distinguished experimental 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 structure. Focusing on the conceptual issues entailed in the modelling of response time, Professor Luce rigorously reviews the relevant experimental data and discusses the importance of analyzing data in terms of the
hazard function.
Table of Contents
- PART I: DETECTION PARADIGMS
- PART II: IDENTIFICATION PARADIGMS
- PART III: MATCHING PARADIGMS
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