The accumulator model of two-choice discrimination

DOI10.1016/0022-2496(88)90043-0zbMath0672.92024MaRDI QIDQ1120514

Philip L. Smith, Douglas Vickers

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2496(88)90043-0

zbMATH Keywords

discrete time; continuous state space; exponential model; accumulator model; first passage time distributions; balance of evidence; increment distributions; response probabilities; two-choice discrimination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks

91E99: Mathematical psychology

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