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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Rev. 2009 Jan;116(1):59–83. doi: 10.1037/a0014086

Figure 1.

Figure 1

An illustration of the standard signal detection model with one normal distribution for old stimuli and another for new stimuli, the z-ROC plotted from the two distributions, and the equation relating the z-transformed hit and false-alarm rates. μo is the mean of the distribution for old words and σo and σn are the standard deviations for the distributions of old and new words respectively. ZHit = z-score of the hit rate; ZFA = z-score of the false-alarm rate.