Response Times

ISBN-13: 9780195036428 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 577 str.

R. Duncan Luce

Opis

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 relevance of the hazard function, a novel and important approach he and his colleagues have developed. Since measurements of response times are widely used by experimental psychologists as one approach to distinguishing among theories of intellectual functioning, the conceptual arguments Professor Luce brings to bear on mathematical models of response time are of great relevance to mathematical and experimental psychologists.

Recenzje

clear...covers the whole issue thoroughly.

Spis treści

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.