Showing that the race model inequality is not violated
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Showing that the race model inequality is not violated. / Gondan, Matthias; Riehl, Verena; Blurton, Steven Paul.
In: Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 44, No. 1, 03.2012, p. 248-255.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Showing that the race model inequality is not violated
AU - Gondan, Matthias
AU - Riehl, Verena
AU - Blurton, Steven Paul
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - When participants are asked to respond in the same way to stimuli from different sources (e. g., auditory and visual), responses are often observed to be substantially faster when both stimuli are presented simultaneously (redundancy gain). Different models account for this effect, the two most important being race models and coactivation models. Redundancy gains consistent with the race model have an upper limit, however, which is given by the well-known race model inequality (Miller, 1982). A number of statistical tests have been proposed for testing the race model inequality in single participants and groups of participants. All of these tests use the race model as the null hypothesis, and rejection of the null hypothesis is considered evidence in favor of coactivation. We introduce a statistical test in which the race model prediction is the alternative hypothesis. This test controls the Type I error if a theory predicts that the race model prediction holds in a given experimental condition. © 2011 Psychonomic Society, Inc.
AB - When participants are asked to respond in the same way to stimuli from different sources (e. g., auditory and visual), responses are often observed to be substantially faster when both stimuli are presented simultaneously (redundancy gain). Different models account for this effect, the two most important being race models and coactivation models. Redundancy gains consistent with the race model have an upper limit, however, which is given by the well-known race model inequality (Miller, 1982). A number of statistical tests have been proposed for testing the race model inequality in single participants and groups of participants. All of these tests use the race model as the null hypothesis, and rejection of the null hypothesis is considered evidence in favor of coactivation. We introduce a statistical test in which the race model prediction is the alternative hypothesis. This test controls the Type I error if a theory predicts that the race model prediction holds in a given experimental condition. © 2011 Psychonomic Society, Inc.
KW - Attention
KW - Auditory Perception
KW - Cognition
KW - Humans
KW - Models, Theoretical
KW - Reaction Time
KW - Visual Perception
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856887449&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3758/s13428-011-0147-z
DO - 10.3758/s13428-011-0147-z
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 21858603
VL - 44
SP - 248
EP - 255
JO - Behavior Research Methods
JF - Behavior Research Methods
SN - 1554-351X
IS - 1
ER -
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