Psychology & Brain Sciences 891MC - S- Modeling Cognitive Dynamics

Modeling response time (RT) distributions from cognitive tasks has proven to be an incredibly effective way to discriminate theoretical accounts, from distinguishing serial and discrete processing stages to disentangling information quality and response biases. We will discuss studies that use RT modeling across a wide range of cognitive phenomena, including perception, attention, reading, memory, and decision making. Students will also get direct experience writing code to implement RT models and apply them to data, hopefully including data from their own research.

Open to Graduate Psychology majors only.