Mental architectures with selectively influenced but stochastically interdependent components
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| Titel: | Mental architectures with selectively influenced but stochastically interdependent components |
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| Autoren: | Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, Richard Schweickert, Kyongje Sunga |
| Weitere Verfasser: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Quelle: | http://www2.psych.purdue.edu/~ehtibar/downloads/DzhSchwSung.pdf. |
| Publikationsjahr: | 2003 |
| Bestand: | CiteSeerX |
| Schlagwörter: | Mental processing architecture, Information processing time, Response time, Parallel (concurrent) processes, Serial (sequential) processes, Critical path network, Parallel-serial network, Wheatstone bridge, Selective influence, Stochastic interdependence |
| Beschreibung: | The way external factors influence distribution functions for the overall time required to perform a mental task (such as responding to a stimulus, or solving a problem) may be informative as to the underlying mental architecture, the hypothetical network of interconnected processes some of which are selectively influenced by some of the external factors. Under the assumption that all processes contributing to the overall performance time are stochastically independent, several basic results have been previously established. These results relate patterns of response time distribution functions produced by manipulating external factors to such questions as whether the hypothetical constituent processes in the mental architecture enter AND gates or OR gates, and whether pairs of processes are sequential or concurrent. The present study shows that all these results are also valid for stochastically interdependent component times, provided the selective dependence of these components upon external factors is understood within the framework of a recently proposed theory of selective influence. According to this theory each component is representable as a function of three arguments: the factor set selectively influencing it, a component-specific source of randomness, and a source of randomness shared by all the components. |
| Publikationsart: | text |
| Dateibeschreibung: | application/pdf |
| Sprache: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.591.2312; http://www2.psych.purdue.edu/~ehtibar/downloads/DzhSchwSung.pdf |
| Verfügbarkeit: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.591.2312 http://www2.psych.purdue.edu/~ehtibar/downloads/DzhSchwSung.pdf |
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| Dokumentencode: | edsbas.E63A564B |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | The way external factors influence distribution functions for the overall time required to perform a mental task (such as responding to a stimulus, or solving a problem) may be informative as to the underlying mental architecture, the hypothetical network of interconnected processes some of which are selectively influenced by some of the external factors. Under the assumption that all processes contributing to the overall performance time are stochastically independent, several basic results have been previously established. These results relate patterns of response time distribution functions produced by manipulating external factors to such questions as whether the hypothetical constituent processes in the mental architecture enter AND gates or OR gates, and whether pairs of processes are sequential or concurrent. The present study shows that all these results are also valid for stochastically interdependent component times, provided the selective dependence of these components upon external factors is understood within the framework of a recently proposed theory of selective influence. According to this theory each component is representable as a function of three arguments: the factor set selectively influencing it, a component-specific source of randomness, and a source of randomness shared by all the components. |
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