Context effects occur when a choice between 2 options is altered by adding a 3rd alternative. Three major context effects—similarity, compromise, and attraction—have wide …
The time course of perceptual choice is discussed in a model of gradual, leaky, stochastic, and competitive information accumulation in nonlinear decision units. Special cases of the …
Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 118 (1) of Psychological Review (see record 2011-00732-004). The name of the philosopher Charles …
How do we make simple purchasing decisions (eg, whether or not to buy a product at a given price)? Previous work has shown that the attentional drift-diffusion model (aDDM) can …
The authors interpret decision field theory (JR Busemeyer & JT Townsend, 1993) as a connectionist network and extend it to accommodate multialternative preferential choice …
Meaning is a fundamental component of nearly all aspects of human cognition, but formal models of semantic memory have classically lagged behind many other areas of cognition …
The diffusion model for 2-choice decisions (R. Ratcliff, 1978) was applied to data from lexical decision experiments in which word frequency, proportion of high-versus low-frequency …
In the last years, research on risky choice has moved beyond analyzing choices only. Models have been suggested that aim to describe the underlying cognitive processes and …