Zusatztext "This is an important book for those who study response times or use them as tools. What about those who find mathematics indigestible? The fact is that there are not many clearer expositions of response times, with or without mathematics. In many cases, the author's presentation of work is clearer than the original literature....This book has something for everyone who is seriously interested in response times: a history, a handbook, and a glimpse of our future science." --Contemporary Psychology Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Representing Response Times as Random Variables Part I: Detection Paradigms 2: Simple Reaction Times: Basic Data 3: Decomposition into Decision and Residual Latencies 4: Distributions of Simple Decision Latencies 5: Detection of Signals Presented at Irregular Times Part II: Identification Paradigms 6: Two-Choice Reaction Times: Basic Ideas and Data 7: Mixture Models 8: Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Discrete Time 9: Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Continuous Time 10: Absolute Identification of More than Two Signals Part III: Matching Paradigms 11: Memory, Scanning, Visual Search, and Same-Difference Designs 12: Processing Stages and Strategies

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

• 1: Representing Response Times as Random Variables

• Part I: Detection Paradigms

• 2: Simple Reaction Times: Basic Data

• 3: Decomposition into Decision and Residual Latencies

• 4: Distributions of Simple Decision Latencies

• 5: Detection of Signals Presented at Irregular Times

• Part II: Identification Paradigms

• 6: Two-Choice Reaction Times: Basic Ideas and Data

• 7: Mixture Models

• 8: Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Discrete Time

• 9: Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Continuous Time

• 10: Absolute Identification of More than Two Signals

• Part III: Matching Paradigms

• 11: Memory, Scanning, Visual Search, and Same-Difference Designs

• 12: Processing Stages and Strategies