Distribution of Human Response Times
Neurons and Cognition
2013-05-29 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate that distributions of human response times have power-law tails and, among closed-form distributions, are best fit by the generalized inverse gamma distribution. We speculate that the task difficulty tracks the half-width of the distribution and show that it is related to the exponent of the power-law tail.
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@article{arxiv.1305.6320,
title = {Distribution of Human Response Times},
author = {Tao Ma and John G. Holden and R. A. Serota},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6320},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
11 pages, 19 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1305.4173