Modeling Individual Differences in Perceptual Decision Making

• Main Author: James T. Townsend (auth)
• Other Authors: Cheng-Ta Yang (auth), Joseph W. Houpt (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; perceptual decision making; processing capacity; Response Time; Cognitive Modeling; individual differences
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

To deal with the abundant amount of information in the environment in order to achieve our goals, human beings adopt a strategy to accumulate some information and filter out other information to ultimately make decisions. Since the development of cognitive science in the 1960s, researchers have been...