scholarly journals Examination of Reaction Processes to Spatial Cues Using Diffusion Decision Model

Author(s):  
Takashi Yamane ◽  
Makoto Hirakawa ◽  
Fuminori Ono
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1099-1121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Fontanesi ◽  
Sebastian Gluth ◽  
Mikhail S. Spektor ◽  
Jörg Rieskamp

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-321
Author(s):  
Miranda L. Johnson ◽  
John Palmer ◽  
Cathleen M. Moore ◽  
Geoffrey M. Boynton

AbstractSpatial cues help participants detect a visual target when it appears at the cued location. One hypothesis for this cueing effect, called selective perception, is that cueing a location enhances perceptual encoding at that location. Another hypothesis, called selective decision, is that the cue has no effect on perception, but instead provides prior information that facilitates decision-making. We distinguished these hypotheses by comparing a simultaneous display with two spatial locations to sequential displays with two temporal intervals. The simultaneous condition had a partially valid spatial cue, and the sequential condition had a partially valid temporal cue. Selective perception predicts no cueing effect for sequential displays given there is enough time to switch attention. In contrast, selective decision predicts cueing effects for sequential displays regardless of time. We used endogenous cueing of a detection-like coarse orientation discrimination task with clear displays (no external noise or postmasks). Results showed cueing effects for the sequential condition, supporting a decision account of selective attention for endogenous cueing of detection-like tasks.


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Ratcliff ◽  
Philip L. Smith ◽  
Scott D. Brown ◽  
Gail McKoon

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandramouli Chandrasekaran ◽  
Guy E. Hawkins

AbstractDecision-making is the process of choosing and performing actions in response to sensory cues so as to achieve behavioral goals. A sophisticated research effort has led to the development of many mathematical models to describe the response time (RT) distributions and choice behavior of observers performing decision-making tasks. However, relatively few researchers use these models because it demands expertise in various numerical, statistical, and software techniques. Although some of these problems have been surmounted in existing software packages, the packages have often focused on the classical decision-making model, the diffusion decision model. Recent theoretical advances in decision-making that posit roles for “urgency”, time-varying decision thresholds, noise in various aspects of the decision-formation process or low pass filtering of sensory evidence, have proven to be challenging to incorporate in a coherent software framework that permits quantitative evaluations among these competing classes of decision-making models. Here, we present a toolbox —Choices and Response Times in R, orCHaRTr— that provides the user the ability to implement and test a wide variety of decision-making models ranging from classic through to modern versions of the diffusion decision model, to models with urgency signals, or collapsing boundaries. Earlier versions ofCHaRTrhave been instrumental in a number of recent studies of humans and monkeys performing perceptual decision-making tasks. We also provide guidance on how to extend the toolbox to incorporate future developments in decision-making models.


2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 730-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Holmes ◽  
Jennifer S. Trueblood

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 46-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Boehm ◽  
Jeffrey Annis ◽  
Michael J. Frank ◽  
Guy E. Hawkins ◽  
Andrew Heathcote ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062093272
Author(s):  
David J. Johnson ◽  
Michelle E. Stepan ◽  
Joseph Cesario ◽  
Kimberly M. Fenn

The current study examines the effect of sleep deprivation and caffeine use on racial bias in the decision to shoot. Participants deprived of sleep for 24 hr (vs. rested participants) made more errors in a shooting task and were more likely to shoot unarmed targets. A diffusion decision model analysis revealed sleep deprivation decreased participants’ ability to extract information from the stimuli, whereas caffeine impacted the threshold separation, reflecting decreased caution. Neither sleep deprivation nor caffeine moderated anti-Black racial bias in shooting decisions or at the process level. We discuss how our results clarify discrepancies in past work testing the impact of fatigue on racial bias in shooting decisions.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Boehm ◽  
Jeff Annis ◽  
Michael Frank ◽  
Guy Hawkins ◽  
Andrew Heathcote ◽  
...  

For many years the Diffusion Decision Model (DDM) has successfully accounted for behavioral data from a wide range of domains. Important contributors to the DDM’s success are the across-trial variability parameters, which allow the model to account for the various shapes of response time distributions encountered in practice. However, several researchers have pointed out that estimating the variability parameters can be a challenging task. Moreover, the numerous fitting methods for the DDM each come with their own associated problems and solutions. This often leaves users in a difficult position. In this collaborative project we invited researchers from the DDM community to apply their various fitting methods to simulated data and provide advice and expert guidance on estimating the DDM’s between-trial variability parameters using these methods. Our study establishes a comprehensive reference resource and describes methods that can help to overcome the challenges associated with estimating the DDM’s across-trial variability parameters.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 850-865
Author(s):  
Nadja R. Ging-Jehli ◽  
Roger Ratcliff

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