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Reaction Time and Mental Chronometry

The topics of reaction time and mental chronometry concern how measurements of people's speed and accuracy in responding to events during task performance reveal the nature and temporal dynamics of underlying mental operations and stages of information processing.

For More Information:

• Meyer, D. E., Irwin, D. E., Osman, A. M., & Kounios, J. (1988). The dynamics of cognition and action: Mental processes inferred from speed-accuracy decomposition. Psychological Review, 95, 183-237.
• Meyer, D. E., Osman, A. M., Irwin, D. E., & Yantis, S. (1988). Modern mental chronometry. Biological Psychology, 26, 3-67.
• Meyer, D. E., Yantis, S., Osman, A. M., & Smith, J. E. K. (1984). Discrete-state versus continuous models of response preparation. In J. Requin & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Preparatory states and processes. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
• Meyer, D. E., Yantis, S., Osman, A. M., & Smith, J. E. K. (1985). Temporal properties of rapid information processing: Tests of discrete versus continuous models. Cognitive Psychology, 17, 445-518.
• Osman, A. M., Kornblum, S., & Meyer, D. E. (1986). The point-of-no-return in choice reaction time: Controlled and ballistic stages of response preparation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12, 243-258.
• Osman, A. M., Kornblum, S., & Meyer, D. E. (1990). Does motor programming necessitate response execution? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 183-198.
• Yantis, S. G., Meyer, D. E., & Smith, J. E. K. (1991). Analyses of multinomial mixture distributions: New tests for stochastic models of cognition and action. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 350-374.

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