The Diffusion Decision Model: Theory and Data for Two-Choice Decision Tasks

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Neural Computation

• Publication date

  2008-02-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1162/neco.2008.12-06-420PMID 18085991PMCID PMC2474742
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