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JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 96-109Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2016.03.005
Keywords
Decision time; Diffusion model; Conditioned and unconditioned moments
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- NIH Brain Initiative [1-U01-NS090514-01]
- NSF-CRCNS grant [DMS-1430077]
- Princeton University Insley-Blair Pyne Fund
- OKUM Fellowship
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1427949] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We derive expressions for the first three moments of the decision time (DT) distribution produced via first threshold crossings by sample paths of a drift-diffusion equation. The pure and extended diffusion processes are widely used to model two-alternative forced choice decisions, and, while simple formulae for accuracy, mean DT and coefficient of variation are readily available, third and higher moments and conditioned moments are not generally available. We provide explicit formulae for these, describe their behaviors as drift rates and starting points approach interesting limits, and, with the support of numerical simulations, discuss how trial-to-trial variability of drift rates, starting points, and non-decision times affect these behaviors in the extended diffusion model. Both unconditioned moments and those conditioned on correct and erroneous responses are treated. We argue that the results will assist in exploring mechanisms of evidence accumulation and in fitting parameters to experimental data. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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