Journal article
Modeling Evidence Accumulation Decision Processes Using Integral Equations: Urgency-Gating and Collapsing Boundaries
Philip L Smith, Roger Ratcliff
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW | AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC | Published : 2021
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000301
Abstract
Diffusion models of evidence accumulation have successfully accounted for the distributions of response times and choice probabilities from many experimental tasks, but recently their assumption that evidence is accumulated at a constant rate to constant decision boundaries has been challenged. One model assumes that decision-makers seek to optimize their performance by using decision boundaries that collapse over time. Another model assumes that evidence does not accumulate and is represented by a stationary distribution that is gated by an urgency signal to make a response. We present explicit, integral-equation expressions for the first-passage time distributions of the urgency-gating and..
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