A practical introduction to using the drift diffusion model of decision-making in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and health sciences

CE Myers, A Interian, AA Moustafa - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of studies using evidence-
accumulation models (such as the drift diffusion model, DDM) in the fields of psychology and …

Quantifying aberrant approach-avoidance conflict in psychopathology: A review of computational approaches

AM Letkiewicz, HC Kottler, SA Shankman… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Making effective decisions during approach-avoidance conflict is critical in daily life.
Aberrant decision-making during approach-avoidance conflict is evident in a range of …

Combining speed and accuracy to control for speed-accuracy trade-offs (?)

HR Liesefeld, M Janczyk - Behavior Research Methods, 2019 - Springer
In psychological experiments, participants are typically instructed to respond as fast as
possible without sacrificing accuracy. How they interpret this instruction and, consequently …

A flexible framework for simulating and fitting generalized drift-diffusion models

M Shinn, NH Lam, JD Murray - ELife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The drift-diffusion model (DDM) is an important decision-making model in cognitive
neuroscience. However, innovations in model form have been limited by methodological …

How many trials are required for parameter estimation in diffusion modeling? A comparison of different optimization criteria

V Lerche, A Voss, M Nagler - Behavior research methods, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Diffusion models (Ratcliff, 1978) make it possible to identify and separate different
cognitive processes underlying responses in binary decision tasks (eg, the speed of …

" AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI

AM Kloft, R Welsch, T Kosch, S Villa - … of the CHI Conference on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Heightened AI expectations facilitate performance in human-AI interactions through placebo
effects. While lowering expectations to control for placebo effects is advisable, overly …

Model complexity in diffusion modeling: Benefits of making the model more parsimonious

V Lerche, A Voss - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The diffusion model (Ratcliff,) takes into account the reaction time distributions of both
correct and erroneous responses from binary decision tasks. This high degree of information …

Social norms shape visual appearance: Taking a closer look at the link between social norm learning and perceptual decision-making

M Germar, VH Duderstadt, A Mojzisch - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most fundamental questions in social psychology is whether norms can change
individuals' minds by shaping the visual appearance of stimuli. This question was first raised …

Biased sequential sampling underlies the effects of time pressure and delay in social decision making

F Chen, I Krajbich - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Social decision making involves balancing conflicts between selfishness and pro-sociality.
The cognitive processes underlying such decisions are not well understood, with some …

Diffusion modeling and intelligence: Drift rates show both domain-general and domain-specific relations with intelligence.

V Lerche, M von Krause, A Voss… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Several previous studies reported relationships between speed of information processing as
measured with the drift parameter of the diffusion model (Ratcliff, 1978) and general …