Revisiting the Evidence for Collapsing Boundaries and Urgency Signals in Perceptual Decision-Making
Guy E. Hawkins; Birte U. Forstmann; Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers; Roger Ratcliff; Scott Brown · 2015 · Journal of Neuroscience
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Abstract (excerpt)
For nearly 50 years, the dominant account of decision-making holds that noisy information is accumulated until a fixed threshold is crossed. This account has been tested extensively against behavioral and neurophysiological data for…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.2410-14.2015