There is general agreement that the effect of frequency on lexical access time is roughly
logarithmic, although little attention has been given to the reason for this. The authors argue …

The most powerful tests of response time (RT) models often involve the whole shape of the
RT distribution, thus avoiding mimicking that can occur at the level of RT means and …

A difficulty in the development and testing of psychological models is that they are typically
evaluated solely on their ability to fit experimental data, with little consideration given to their …

This article investigates the transition to memory-based performance that commonly occurs
with practice on tasks that initially require use of a multistep algorithm. In an alphabet …

A long standing goal of quantitative research in cognitive psychology has been to provide a
lawful description of the retention of information over time. While a number of theoretical …

Many evaluations of cognitive models rely on data that have been averaged or aggregated
across all experimental subjects, and so fail to consider the possibility that there are …

In this commentary, the authors elaborate on the issue of going beyond curve fitting to the
drawing of inferences about motor learning. They argue that the agenda of A. Heathcote and …

Perceptual categorization is the process of assigning a category label to a perceived object.
It is an essential component of numerous cognitive tasks, including object naming and …