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| Type: | Conference paper |
| Title: | Humans use different statistics for sequence analysis depending on the task |
| Author: | Gökaydin, Dinis
Ma-Wyatt, Anna Marisa
Navarro, Daniel Joseph
Perfors, Amy Francesca |
| Citation: | Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2011), held in Boston, USA 20-32 July 2011 / L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher and T. Shipley (eds.): pp.543-548 |
| Publisher: | Cognitive Science Society |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| ISBN: | 9780976831877
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| Conference Name: | Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (33rd : 2011 : Boston, USA)
CogSci 2011 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Psychology |
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Responsibility: | Dinis Gökaydin, Anna Ma-Wyatt, Daniel Navarro, Amy Perfors |
| Abstract: | Despite its long history (Luce, 1986) the study of sequential effects has mostly been confined to simple binary tasks such as two-alternative forced choice tasks (2AFC). Here we present experimental results from a choice task with three rather than two alternatives (3AFC) as well as a novel model that can explain them. We find that humans change the statistics they use to analyse a sequence depending on the task constraints, relying on first-order transition probabilities in a 2AFC but event relative frequencies (i.e., zeroth-order transition probabilities) in a 3AFC. |
| Keywords: | Sequential effects; reaction time; perception; decision making |
| Description (link): | http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2011/index.html |
| Appears in Collections: | Psychology Publications
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