Mental architectures with selectively influenced but stochastically interdependent components
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| Název: | Mental architectures with selectively influenced but stochastically interdependent components |
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| Autoři: | Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N., Schweickert, Richard, Sung, Kyongje |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Uppsala universitet, Kollegiet för avancerade studier (SCAS) 2004 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Electronic Resource |
| Abstrakt: | 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. |
| Témata: | 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, Natural Sciences, Naturvetenskap, Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text |
| DOI: | 10.1016.j.jmp.2003.12.003 |
| URL: | Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), 0022-2496, 2004, 48:1, s. 51-64 |
| Dostupnost: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Poznámka: | English |
| Other Numbers: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:uu-469769 doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2003.12.003 1312846558 |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | 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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| DOI: | 10.1016.j.jmp.2003.12.003 |