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Response Times : Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""1. Representing Response Times as Random Variables""; ""1.1. The Study of Response Times""; ""1.1.1 Why?""; ""1.1.2 How?""; ""1.1.3 Organization""; ""1.2 Random Variables""; ""1.2.1 Distribution and Density Functions""; ""*1.2.2 A Somewhat More General Treatment of Random Variables""; ""1.2.3 Hazard Functions""; ""1.2.4 On Contemplating Distributions""; ""1.3 Several Random Variables""; ""1.3.1 Joint and Conditional Distributions""; ""1.3.2 Bayes' Theorem""; ""1.3.3 Independence""; ""1.3.4 Expectation and Variance""; ""1.3.5 Random Samples""
- ""*1.3.6 Random Samples of Random Size""""1.4 Generating Functions""; ""1.4.1 Convolution""; ""1.4.2 The Moment Generating Function""; ""1.4.3 Three Examples: Exponential, Gaussian, and Ex-Gaussian""; ""1.4.4 The Characteristic Function""; ""1.4.5 Cumulants""; ""1.4.6 Discrete Generating Functions""; ""1.4.7 Three Examples: Binomial, Poisson, and Geometric""; ""1.5 Elementary Concepts of Stochastic Processes""; ""1.5.1 Basic Definitions""; ""1.5.2 Some Important Constraints""; ""Part I. DETECTION PARADIGMS""; ""2. Simple Reaction Times: Basic Data""; ""2.1 The Problem""
- ""2.2 The Simple Reaction-Time Paradigm""""2.3 Effect of Signal Properties on Reaction Time""; ""2.4 Effect of Foreperiod on Reaction Time""; ""2.5 Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff""; ""2.6 The Response and Reaction Time""; ""2.7 What Faces a Model Builder?""; ""3. Decomposition into Decision and Residual Latencies""; ""3.1 Independent, Additive Stage Latencies""; ""3.2 Specific Assumptions""; ""3.3 Manipulation of Stages""; ""3.4 Conclusions""; ""4. Distributions of Simple Decision Latencies""; ""4.1 Empirical Distributions""; ""4.2 Discrete-Time, Information-Accumulation Detectors""
- ""4.3 Continuous-Time, Information-Accumulation Detectors""""4.4 Race Between Level and Change Detectors""; ""4.5 Conclusions""; ""5. Detection of Signals Presented at Irregular Times""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Vigilance at Low Signal Rates""; ""5.3 Vigilance at High Signal Rates""; ""5.4 Interaction of Two Signals in Close Succession""; ""5.5 Conclusions""; ""Part II. IDENTIFICATION PARADIGMS""; ""6. Two-Choice Reaction Times: Basic Ideas and Data""; ""6.1 General Considerations""; ""6.2 Relations to Simple Reaction Times""; ""6.3 A Conceptual Scheme for Tradeoffs""
- ""6.4 Discriminability and Accuracy""""6.5 Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff""; ""6.6 Sequential Effects""; ""6.7 Conclusions""; ""7. Mixture Models""; ""7.1 Two-State Mixtures""; ""7.2 A Linear Operator Model for Sequential Effects""; ""7.3 Data With Few Response Errors""; ""7.4 The Fast Guess Account of Errors""; ""7.5 A Three-State, Fast-Guess, Memory Model""; ""7.6 Data With Response Errors: Highly Discriminable Stimuli""; ""7.7 Data With Response Errors: Confusable Signals""; ""7.8 Conclusions""; ""8. Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Discrete Time""; ""8.1 Accumulator Models""