ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
A practical introduction to using the drift diffusion model of decision-making in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and health sciences.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Rational numbers: A systematic review and ALE meta-analysis of the neuroimaging of fraction and decimal processing in the brain.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
- Developing digital biomarker for predicting cognitive response to multi-domain intervention.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Reliable detection and continuous monitoring of memory dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and healthy aging through adaptive computational phenotyping.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Site-Dependent Patterns of Affective Interference Control and Inhibitory Braking Following Auricular Stimulation.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- Examining Pubertal and Cognitive Differences in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Using Drift Diffusion Modeling.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Neural Decision-Making and Affective Dynamics in Weight Regain after Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: A Multimodal Longitudinal Computational Psychiatry Study.Obesity surgery · 2026Article
- Pain Expectation in Individuals With High Autistic Traits: Decision-Evaluation Processes and Oxytocin Modulation.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Badminton Players' Expert Advantage in Anticipation Based on Visual and Auditory Cues: Evidence from the Drift Diffusion Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Comparing drift-diffusion modeling and finger tracking as a window into decision-making in handball penalty situations.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Diurnal rhythms of choice: a novel state-dependent drift diffusion model uncovers time-dependent changes in rat decision making.Research square · 2026Article
- Visual Salience Controls the Speed of Evidence Accumulation in Value-Based Decisions by Rats.eNeuro · 2026Article
- Diurnal rhythms of choice: a novel state-dependent drift diffusion model uncovers time-dependent changes in rat decision making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Apathy, effort-based decisions and brain integrity in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Working memory and daily internalizing problems: Pubertal timing moderates adult relations.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication.Cognition & emotion · 2026Article
- The Canine Search and Adoption Decision Process: A Conceptual Framework for Companion Pet Shelter Adoption.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Individual differences in learning and decision-making: the role of COMT Val158Met polymorphism in transitive inference.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Prediction of uncertain visual trajectories is biased toward motion continuity.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Optimizing electrotactile stimulation intensity for responses under cognitive load.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Single-pulse TMS functional mapping of sensorimotor cortex during decision-making task.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of studies using evidence-accumulation models (such as the drift diffusion model, DDM) in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. These models go beyond observed behavior to extract descriptions of latent cognitive processes that have been linked to different brain substrates. Accordingly, it is important for psychology and neuroscience researchers to be able to understand published findings based on these models. However, many articles using (and explaining) these models assume that the reader already has a fairly deep understanding of (and interest in) the computational and mathematical underpinnings, which may limit many readers' ability to understand the results and appreciate the implications. The goal of this article is therefore to provide a practical introduction to the DDM and its application to behavioral data - without requiring a deep background in mathematics or computational modeling. The article discusses the basic ideas underpinning the DDM, and explains the way that DDM results are normally presented and evaluated. It also provides a step-by-step example of how the DDM is implemented and used on an example dataset, and discusses methods for model validation and for presenting (and evaluating) model results. Supplementary material provides R code for all examples, along with the sample dataset described in the text, to allow interested readers to replicate the examples themselves. The article is primarily targeted at psychologists, neuroscientists, and health professionals with a background in experimental cognitive psychology and/or cognitive neuroscience, who are interested in understanding how DDMs are used in the literature, as well as some who may to go on to apply these approaches in their own work.
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