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Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization

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This paper presents a meta-modelling framework for representing Response Times as Random Variables and its applications to Identification of More than Two Signals and Processing Stages and Strategies.
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1. Representing Response Times as Random Variables PART I: DETECTION PARADIGMS 2. Simple Reaction Times: Basic Data 3. Decomposition into Decision and Residual Latencies 4. Distributions of Simple Decision Latencies 5. Detection of Signals Presented at Irregular Times PART II: IDENTIFICATION PARADIGMS 6. Two-Choice Reaction Times: Basic Ideas and Data 7. Mixture Models 8. Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Discrete Time 9. Stochastic Accumulation of Information in Continuous Time 10. Absolute Identification of More than Two Signals PART III: MATCHING PARADIGMS 11. Memory, Scanning, Visual Search, and Same-Difference Designs 12. Processing Stages and Strategies

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Optimizing the use of information: strategic control of activation of responses.

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Response of Neurons in the Lateral Intraparietal Area during a Combined Visual Discrimination Reaction Time Task

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High-Speed Scanning in Human Memory

Saul Sternberg
- 05 Aug 1966 - 
TL;DR: When subjects judge whether a test symbol is contained in a short memorized sequence of symbols, their mean reaction-time increases linearly with the length of the sequence, implying the existence of an internal serial-comparison process.
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The discovery of processing stages: Extensions of Donders' method

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that stage-durations may be additive without being stochastically independent, a result that is relevant to the formulation of mathematical models of RT.
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On the Rate of Gain of Information

TL;DR: The principal finding is that the rate of gain of information is, on the average, constant with respect to time, within the duration of one perceptual-motor act, and has a value of the order of five “bits” per second.
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Stimulus information as a determinant of reaction time.

TL;DR: In the typical reaction-time experiment, S's reaction time is greater when he has to respond differentially to one of two equally probable stimuli instead of to just one stimulus, but this becomes even more significant when looked at from the standpoint of modern communication theory.