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Better ways to study penetrability with detection theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Neil A. Macmillan
Neil A. Macmillan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 11210 nmacmill@broadway.gc.cuny.edu
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Abstract

Signal detection theory (SDT) is best known as a method for separating sensitivity from bias. If sensitivity reflects early sensory processing and bias later cognition, then SDT can be use to study penetrability by asking whether cognitive manipulations affect sensitivity. This assumption is too simple, but SDT can nonetheless be helpful in developing specific methods of how sensory and cognitive information combine. Two such approaches are described.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 384
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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