Parallel Processing Response Times and Experimental Determination of the Stopping Rule

✍ Scribed by James T. Townsend; Hans Colonius

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 263 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-2496
• DOI: 10.1006/jmps.1997.1185

✦ Synopsis

It was formerly demonstrated that virtually all reasonable exhaustive serial models, and a more constrained set of exhaustive parallel models, cannot predict critical effects associated with self-terminating models. The present investigation greatly generalizes the parallel class of models covered by similar ``impossibility'' theorems. Specifically, we prove that if an exhaustive parallel model is not super capacity, and if targets are processed at least as fast as non-targets, then it cannot predict such (self-terminating) effects. Such effects are ubiquitous in the experimental literature, offering strong confirmation for self-terminating processing.