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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Cogn Neurosci. 2014 Feb 24;26(9):1928–1948. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00596

Table 3.

DDM Parameters from the Best-Fitting Model

a. Constant DDM Parameter Estimates (Posterior Std)

Parameter Mean

Boundary separation (a) 1.7 (0.09)
Bias (z) 0.54 (0.02)
Intertrial variance in non-decision time (st) 0.01 (0.0)
Intertrial variance in drift rate (sv) 0.008 (0.04)
Intertrial variance in bias (sz) 0.35 (0.03)
b. DDM Parameter Estimates (Posterior Std) that Vary by Condition

Rule Block
Neutral Block
SOA Expected Unexpected Nonword Word Nonword

Short
 Drift rate (v) 2.8 (1.2) 2.6 (1.1) −3.1 (1.2) 3.8 (1.2) −3.8 (1.2)
 Non-decision time (t) 0.464 (0.025) 0.440 (0.023) 0.496 (0.026) 0.417 (0.022) 0.441 (0.024)
Long
 Drift rate (v) 2.8 (1.2) 2.2 (1.2) −3.5 (1.1) 3.6 (1.1) −3.8 (1.1)
 Non-decision time (t) 0.373 (0.020) 0.441 (0.025) 0.433 (0.023) 0.383 (0.020) 0.414 (0.023)