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Simon Bang Kristensen, Katrine Bødkergaard, Bo Martin Bibby
An adaptive design adjusts dynamically as information is accrued and a consequence of applying an adaptive design is the potential for inducing small-sample bias in estimates. In psychometrics and psychophysics, a common class of studies investigate a subject's ability to perform a task as a function of the stimulus…
Priscilla Balestrucci, Marc O. Ernst, Alessandro Moscatelli
Psychophysical methods are widely used in neuroscience to investigate the quantitative relation between a physical property of the world and its perceptual representation provided by the senses. Recent studies introduced the Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) to fit the responses of multiple participants in…
Priscilla Balestrucci, Maura Mezzetti, Barbara La Scaleia, Alessandro Moscatelli
Inferential models in psychophysics are essential for quantifying the relation between physical properties of the stimulus and their perceptual representations. The psychometric function is typically used to model the responses of individual participants in forced-choice experiments. The accuracy and the noise of the…
Miguel A. García-Pérez, Rocío Alcalá-Quintana
Duration discrimination data collected with single-presentation tasks (e.g., bisection or temporal generalization tasks) or dual-presentation tasks (e.g., greater-less or same-different tasks) are usually analyzed by fitting psychometric functions. The independent variable in these functions is test duration measured…
J Gerard G Borst, André Goedegebure
Individuals with tinnitus hear sounds that are not present in the external environment. Whereas hearing difficulties at frequencies near those matching the tinnitus pitch are a common complaint for individuals with tinnitus, it is unclear to what extent the internal tinnitus sounds interfere with the detection of…
Fangfang Hong, Ruby Bouhassira, Jason Chow, Craig Sanders + 4 more
Discrimination thresholds reveal the limits of human perception; scientists have studied them since the time of Fechner in the 1800s. Forced-choice psychophysical methods combined with the method of constant stimuli or parametric adaptive trial-placement procedures are well-suited for measuring one-dimensional…
Sjoerd C. Bruin, Jiří Kosinka, Cara Tursun
Adaptive psychophysical procedures aim to increase the efficiency and reliability of measurements. With increasing stimulus and experiment complexity in the last decade, estimating multi-dimensional psychometric functions has become a challenging task for adaptive procedures. If the experimenter has limited information…
Arthur S. Courtin, Jesper Fischer Ehmsen, Leah Banellis, Francesca Fardo + 1 more
Interoception, the capacity to sense, perceive, and metacognitively appraise viscerosensory and homeostatic signals, is a growing focus in psychology and psychiatry. Adaptive psychophysical tasks now allow quantification of perceptual sensitivity, bias, and precision in cardiac and respiratory domains. However…
Chia‐Wei Fan, Pai‐Cheng Lin, Cheng‐Fang Yen, Chung‐Ying Lin
1## Introduction Executive function refers to a complex set of higher order cognitive operations that includes working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning, reasoning, and problem solving (Cristofori et al. ; Lezak et al. ; Welsh and Pennington ). Executive function controls and regulates a…
Arthur S. Courtin, Jesper Fischer Ehmsen, Leah Banellis, Francesca Fardo + 1 more
Interoception, the capacity to sense, perceive, and metacognitively appraise viscerosensory and homeostatic signals, is a growing focus in psychology and psychiatry. Adaptive psychophysical tasks now allow quantification of perceptual sensitivity, bias, and precision in cardiac and respiratory domains. However…
Joyce Siette, Marianna Mazza
The field of aging psychiatry is undergoing a significant transformation, propelled by the rigorous application of psychometric principles to better define and measure clinical constructs. This Editorial provides a comprehensive overview of the contributions made by four original papers within the “Psychometrics in…
Eliana María Fuentes Mendoza, Laiene Olabarrieta-Landa, Clara Sancho-Domingo, Oscar Teijido + 3 more
Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the short version of the Token Test (SVTT) and the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) using an item response theory (IRT) framework and to establish normative data for Colombian children and adolescents based on ability scores. Methods: A total of 668 healthy…
Samuel Kiegeland, Ethan Wilcox, Afra Amini, David Robert Reich + 1 more
'Ryan Cotterell'] Numerous previous studies have sought to determine to what extent language models, pretrained on natural language text, can serve as useful models of human cognition. In this paper, we are interested in the opposite question: whether we can directly optimize a language model to be a useful cognitive…
Joy He-Yueya, Wanjing Anya Ma, Kanishk Gandhi, Benjamin W. Domingue + 2 more
Language Models Authors: ['Joy He-Yueya' 'Wanjing Anya Ma' 'Kanishk Gandhi' 'Benjamin W. Domingue' 'Emma Brunskill' 'Noah D. Goodman'] Language models (LMs) are increasingly used to simulate human-like responses in scenarios where accurately mimicking a population's behavior can guide decisionmaking, such as in…
Jana Uher
This article provides a comprehensive critique of psychology's overreliance on statistical modelling at the expense of epistemologically grounded measurement processes. It highlights that statistics deals with structural relations in data regardless of what these data represent, whereas measurement establishes…
Harold A. Rocha, Amanda Holbrook, Greg Hajcak, Andreas Keil + 5 more
psychophysiological modalities Authors: Harold A. Rocha, Amanda Holbrook, Greg Hajcak, Andreas Keil, Philippe Rast, Julian F. Thayer, Edelyn Verona, Walter P. Vispoel, Peter E. Clayson Psychophysiological research relies on biological measures to understand cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes, but the…
Gerhard Tutz, Pascal Jordan
A general framework of latent trait item response models for continuous responses is given. In contrast to classical test theory models, which traditionally distinguish between true scores and error scores, the responses are clearly linked to latent traits. It is shown that classical test theory models can be derived…