Piéron’s Law and Optimal Behavior in Perceptual Decision-Making

Piéron’s Law is a psychophysical regularity in signal detection tasks that states that mean response times decrease as a power function of stimulus intensity. In this article, we extend Piéron’s Law to perceptual two-choice decision-making tasks, and demonstrate that the law holds as the discriminab...

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Main Authors: van Maanen, Leendert, Grasman, Raoul P. P. P., Forstmann, Birte U., Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249387/