- Title
- Sequential sampling models without random between-trial variability : the racing diffusion model of speeded decision making
- Creator
- Tillman, Gabriel; Van Zandt, Trish; Logan, Gordon
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/175982
- Identifier
- vital:15047
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01719-6
- Identifier
- ISBN:1069-9384 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Most current sequential sampling models have random between-trial variability in their parameters. These sources of variability make the models more complex in order to fit response time data, do not provide any further explanation to how the data were generated, and have recently been criticised for allowing infinite flexibility in the models. To explore and test the need of between-trial variability parameters we develop a simple sequential sampling model of N-choice speeded decision making: the racing diffusion model. The model makes speeded decisions from a race of evidence accumulators that integrate information in a noisy fashion within a trial. The racing diffusion does not assume that any evidence accumulation process varies between trial, and so, the model provides alternative explanations of key response time phenomena, such as fast and slow error response times relative to correct response times. Overall, our paper gives good reason to rethink including between-trial variability parameters in sequential sampling models. © 2020, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Vol. 27, no. 5 (2020), p. 911-936
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2020
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; Decision making; Response time; Sequential sampling models
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