Many psychological experiments have subjects repeat a task to gain the statistical precision
required to test quantitative theories of psychological performance. In such experiments …

A fundamental aspect of decision making is the speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT): slower
decisions tend to be more accurate, but because time is a scarce resource people prefer to …

Many decision making theories assume a principle of sequentially sampling decision-
relevant evidence from the stimulus environment, where sampled evidence is dynamically …

Predictive inference is an important cognitive function and there are many tasks which
measure it, and the error driven learning that underpins it. Context is a key contribution to …

We investigated whether cognitive process models commonly studied in experimental
psychology provide a deeper explanation of preferential choices than the descriptive …

There has been a long standing argument in the Kuhne household over whether Caroline's
dog “Derek”, or her mum Erin's dog “Murphy” is smarter. Derek knows more complex tricks …

Consumer decisions present themselves almost every day in our lives and these decisions
are often made under time pressure. The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether time …

Preferential choices for complex options–such as multi-attribute consumer goods–are
increasingly understood as a cognitive process of sequentially sampling decision-relevant …