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. 2022 Nov 20;87(6):1768–1783. doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01755-y

Table 1.

Best-fitting parameters of the Diffusion Model for Conflict tasks (DMC) (Ulrich et al., 2015) to the experimental data of the two motor processing demand conditions within each experiment as well as weighted root-mean-square-errors (RMSE) averaged across participants

Experiment 1 Experiment 2
Low High Low High
DMC best-fitting parameters
Amplitude A of distractor process 29.8 (2.6) 19.9 (19.7) 37 (4.0) 25 (2.5)
Peak (ms) τ of distractor process 213 (20) 230 (28) 261 (20) 278 (23)
Decision boundary b 189 (6) 188 (7) 198 (8) 188 (7)
Drift rate μc of target process 0.66 (0.04) 0.46 (0.02) 0.61 (0.03) 0.56 (0.03)
Mean residual time (ms) μR 659 (19) 786 (24) 613 (18) 729 (22)
Variability residual time (ms) σR 30 (4) 53 (6) 25 (4) 32 (7)
Shape αs of starting point distribution 3.87 (0.02) 3.82 (0.04) 3.77 (0.05) 3.75 (0.06)
Goodness-of-fit (RMSE) 16.60 (1.95) 33.72 (4.54) 16.73 (2.14) 27.64 (4.68)

Standard Error (SE) of means in parentheses. Following (Ulrich et al., 2015), the step size was t = 1 ms, the diffusion constant was fixed at σ =4, and the shape parameter of the distractor process was fixed at a = 2