SynthesisPsychological bulletin2018
Low and variable correlation between reaction time costs and accuracy costs explained by accumulation models: Meta-analysis and simulations.
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- Calibration of cognitive tests to address the reliability paradox for decision-conflict tasks.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Same same but different: Subtle but consequential differences between two measures to linearly integrate speed and accuracy (LISAS vs. BIS).Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Attention deficit in primary-school-age children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder measured with the attention network test: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Linking computational models of two core tasks of cognitive control.Psychological review · 2023Article
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Abstract
The underpinning assumption of much research on cognitive individual differences (or group differences) is that task performance indexes cognitive ability in that domain. In many tasks performance is measured by differences (costs) between conditions, which are widely assumed to index a psychological process of interest rather than extraneous factors such as speed-accuracy trade-offs (e.g., Stroop, implicit association task, lexical decision, antisaccade, Simon, Navon, flanker, and task switching). Relatedly, reaction time (RT) costs or error costs are interpreted similarly and used interchangeably in the literature. All of this assumes a strong correlation between RT-costs and error-costs from the same psychological effect. We conducted a meta-analysis to test this, with 114 effects across a range of well-known tasks. Counterintuitively, we found a general pattern of weak, and often no, association between RT and error costs (mean
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