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Presentation
Bayesian Approaches to Assessing Architecture and Stopping Rule
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (2012)
  • Joseph W. Houpt, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • A. Heathcote
  • A. Eidels
  • J. T. Townsend, Indiana University - Bloomington
Abstract
Much of scientific psychology and cognitive science can be viewed as a search to understand the mechanisms and dynamics of perception, thought and action. Two processing attributes of particular interest to psychologists are the architecture, or temporal relationships between sub-processes of the system, and the stopping rule, which dictates how many of the sub-processes must be completed for the system to finish. The Survivor Interaction Contrast (SIC) is a powerful tool for assessing the architecture and stopping rule of a mental process model. Thus far, statistical analysis of the SIC has been limited to null-hypothesis- significance tests. In this talk we will demonstrate two Bayesian approaches to assessing the architecture and stopping rule of a process. The first is a nonparametric Bayesian model that examines posterior distributions over SIC forms. This model is based on Dirichlet process priors for the response time distributions. The second is a parametric approach in which we compare hierarchical Bayesian models of the sub-process completion time distributions using varying architecture and stopping rule possibilities.
Keywords
  • architecture,
  • temporal relationships,
  • stopping rule,
  • Survivor Interaction Contrast,
  • SIC,
  • Bayesian approaches,
  • Bayesian models
Publication Date
July, 2012
Citation Information
Joseph W. Houpt, A. Heathcote, A. Eidels and J. T. Townsend. "Bayesian Approaches to Assessing Architecture and Stopping Rule" The 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joseph_houpt/14/