Evidence accumulation models: Current limitations and future directions

NJ Evans, EJ Wagenmakers - 2019 - osf.io
Evidence accumulation models (EAMs) have been the dominant models of speeded
decision-making for several decades. These models propose that evidence accumulates for …

Bayesian statistical approaches to evaluating cognitive models

J Annis, TJ Palmeri - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive models aim to explain complex human behavior in terms of hypothesized
mechanisms of the mind. These mechanisms can be formalized in terms of mathematical …

Assessing the practical differences between model selection methods in inferences about choice response time tasks

NJ Evans - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
Evidence accumulations models (EAMs) have become the dominant modeling framework
within rapid decision-making, using choice response time distributions to make inferences …

Response-time data provide critical constraints on dynamic models of multi-alternative, multi-attribute choice

NJ Evans, WR Holmes, JS Trueblood - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2019 - Springer
Understanding the cognitive processes involved in multi-alternative, multi-attribute choice is
of interest to a wide range of fields including psychology, neuroscience, and economics …

Thermodynamic integration and steppingstone sampling methods for estimating Bayes factors: A tutorial

J Annis, NJ Evans, BJ Miller, TJ Palmeri - Journal of mathematical …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the more principled methods of performing model selection is via Bayes factors.
However, calculating Bayes factors requires marginal likelihoods, which are integrals over …

Refining the law of practice.

NJ Evans, SD Brown, DJK Mewhort… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The “law of practice”—a simple nonlinear function describing the relationship between mean
response time (RT) and practice—has provided a practically and theoretically useful way of …

The role of passing time in decision-making.

NJ Evans, GE Hawkins, SD Brown - Journal of experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Theories of perceptual decision making have been dominated by the idea that evidence
accumulates in favor of different alternatives until some fixed threshold amount is reached …

Troubleshooting Bayesian cognitive models.

B Baribault, AGE Collins - Psychological Methods, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Using Bayesian methods to apply computational models of cognitive processes, or Bayesian
cognitive modeling, is an important new trend in psychological research. The rise of …

An integrated approach to testing dynamic, multilevel theory: Using computational models to connect theory, model, and data

T Ballard, H Palada, M Griffin… - Organizational Research …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Some of the most influential theories in organizational sciences explicitly describe a
dynamic, multilevel process. Yet the inherent complexity of such theories makes them …

Optimal or not; depends on the task

NJ Evans, AJ Bennett, SD Brown - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
Decision-making involves a tradeoff between pressures for caution and urgency. Previous
research has investigated how well humans optimize this tradeoff, and mostly concluded …