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Estimation and interpretation of 1/falpha noise in human cognition.

Psychonomic bulletin & review ·Vol. 11 ·No. 4 ·2004-08-00 ·Pages 579-615

Wagenmakers EJ, Farrell S, Ratcliff R

Abstract

Recent analyses of serial correlations in cognitive tasks have provided preliminary evidence of the presence of a particular form of long-range serial dependence known as 1/f noise. It has been argued that long-range dependence has been largely ignored in mainstream cognitive psychology even though it accounts for a substantial proportion of variability in behavior (see, e.g., Gilden, 1997, 2001). In this article, we discuss the defining characteristics of long-range dependence and argue that claims about its presence need to be evaluated by testing against the alternative hypothesis of short-range dependence. For the data from three experiments, we accomplish such tests with autoregressive fractionally integrated moving-average time series modeling. We find that long-range serial dependence in these experiments can be explained by any of several mechanisms, including mixtures of a small number of short-range processes.

MeSH Terms
Auditory Perception Cognition Humans Models, Statistical Noise
Authors & Affiliations
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Wagenmakers Eric-Jan
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected]
Farrell Simon
Ratcliff Roger
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Article Info
Journal
Psychonomic bulletin & review
Abbr.
Psychon Bull Rev
ISSN
1069-9384
DOI
10.3758/bf03196615
Email
[email protected]
Published
2004-08-00
Pages
579-615
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
9502924
PMCID
PMC1479451
Subset
IM
Grants
NIA NIH HHS · R01-AG17083 · United States
NIMH NIH HHS · R37 MH044640 · United States
NIMH NIH HHS · K05 MH001891 · United States
NIMH NIH HHS · R37-MH44640 · United States
NIMH NIH HHS · K05-MH01891 · United States
NIA NIH HHS · R01 AG017083 · United States
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PubMed source DOI: 10.3758/bf03196615 PMC Full Text View journal details
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