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. 2018 Jul;125(4):512–544. doi: 10.1037/rev0000102

Table 1. Evidence Accumulation Models in Decision Making.

Model Evidence accumulated Stochastic attention Decision criterion
Note. The model names are abbreviated as follows: AAM = associative accumulation model (Bhatia, 2013); LCA = leaky competing accumulators (Usher & McClelland, 2004); MADDM = multialternative attentional drift-diffusion model (Krajbich, Armel, & Rangel, 2010; Krajbich & Rangel, 2011); MDFT = multialternative decision field theory (Roe, Busemeyer, & Townsend, 2001); MLBA = multiattribute linear ballistic accumulator (Trueblood, Brown, & Heathcote, 2014); RN = range-normalization model (Soltani, De Martino, & Camerer, 2012); MDbS = multialternative decision by sampling.
AAM Transformed values on one attended attribute One attribute is stochastically selected for each step of evidence accumulation Absolute threshold
LCA Differences in transformed attribute values, aggregated over attributes Not assumed External stopping time
MADDM Pre-choice attractiveness ratings, weighted by visual attention One alternative is selected for each step of evidence accumulation Relative threshold
MDFT Differences in attribute values between the alternative and the average of the other alternatives, on one attribute One attribute is stochastically selected for each step of evidence accumulation Relative threshold
MLBA Differences in transformed attribute values, aggregated over attributes Not assumed Absolute threshold
RN Transformed attribute values, aggregated over attributes Not assumed Not specified
MDbS Ordinal comparisons between a pair of alternatives on single dimensions A pair and an attribute are stochastically selected for each step of evidence accumulation Relative threshold