Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making

Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making

Piéron's Law describes a psychophysical regularity between mean response times and stimulus intensity in signal detection tasks. In this paper we extend this notion to perceptual two-choice decision-making, and demonstrate that Piéron's Law holds as the discriminability b...

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Main Authors: Leendert eVan Maanen, Raoul P.P.P. Grasman, Birte U Forstmann, Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
decision-making
Bayesian ideal observer
Piéron's Law
random-dot motion paradigm
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2011.00143/full

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