Simple reaction time as a race between signal detection and time estimation: A paradigm and model

Abstract

A new paradigm for simple reaction time is described in which signal detection and time production trials are interleaved. A model is proposed which views the signal detection and time production processes as independent and engaged in a race whose outcome determines the observed response latencies. The model also allows the distribution of detection latencies to be extracted from the data. © 1973 Psychonomic Society, Inc.