Description
Systems Factorial Technology: A Theory Driven Methodology for the Identification of Perceptual and Cognitive Mechanisms explores the theoretical and methodological tools used to investigate fundamental questions central to basic psychological and perceptual processes. Such processes include detection, identification, classification, recognition, and decision-making.This book collects the tools that allow researchers to deal with the pervasive model mimicry problems which exist in standard experimental and theoretical paradigms and includes novel applications to not only basic psychological questions, but also clinical diagnosis and links to neuroscience.Researchers can use this book to begin using the methodology behind SFT and to get an overview of current uses and future directions. The collected developments and applications of SFT allow us to peer inside the human mind and provide strong constraints on psychological theory.- Provides a thorough introduction to the diagnostic tools offered by SFT- Includes a tutorial on applying the method to reaction time data from a variety of different situations- Introduces novel advances for testing the significance of SFT results- Incorporates new measures that allow for the relaxation of the high accuracy criterion- Examines tools to expand the scope of SFT analyses- Applies SFT to a spectrum of different cognitive domains across different sensory modalities
Table of Contents
I. Introduction to Systems Factorial Technology1. Historical Foundations and a Tutorial Introduction to Systems Factorial TechnologyNicholas Altieri, Mario Fific, Daniel Little and Cheng-Ta Yang 2. Stretching Mental Processes: An Overview of and Guide for SFT ApplicationsMario Fific and Daniel LittleII. Recent Advances in Systems Factorial Technology3. Statistical analyses for Systems Factorial TechnologyJoseph Houpt and Devin Michael Burns 4. Development and Applications of the Capacity-Function that Measures AccuracyNicholas Altieri5. Selective Influence And Categorical Separability (Perceptual Separability) In Perception And Cognition: Similarities And DistinctionsJames T. Townsend, Yanjun Liu and Jennifer Lentz 6. Bridge-Building: SFT Interrogation of Major Cognitive PhenomenaDaniel Algom, Daniel Fitousi and Ami Eidels 7. An Examination of Task Demands on the Elicited Processing CapacityLeslie Blaha8. An Information Processing Perspective to Understanding Conflicting InformationXue Jun Cheng, Sarah Moneer, Nicole Elise Christie and Daniel LittleIII. Applications of Systems Factorial Technology9. Applying the Double Factorial Paradigm to Detection and Categorization Tasks: An Example Using Audiovisual Speech PerceptionNicholas Altieri10. Attention and Perceptual Decision MakingCheng-Ta Yang11. Are Two Ears Always Better than One? The Capacity Function Says NoYuan He, Jennifer Lentz and James T. Townsend 12. Logical-rule Based Models of Categorization: Using Systems Factorial Technology to Understand Feature and Dimensional ProcessingDavid william Griffiths, Anthea Grace Blunden and Daniel Little 13. Applying Systems Factorial Technology to Discrete Accumulators with Varying ThresholdsBradley Harding, Vincent LeBlanc, Marc-Andre Goulet and Denis Cousineau 14. Can Confusion-Data Inform Systems Factorial Technology-Like Inference? A Comparison of SFT and Accuracy-Based Measures in Comparable ExperimentsZachary L. Howard, Ami Eidels, Noah H. Silbert, and Daniel R. Little15. The Advantages of Combining the Simultaneous-Sequential Paradigm with Systems Factorial TechnologyPiers Douglas Howe and Adam FergusonIV. Bridging Levels of Explanation16. The Continuing Evolution of Systems Factorial Theory: Connecting Theory with Behavioral and Neural DataMichael Wenger, Erin Ingvalson and Stephanie Rhoten 17. Using Systems Factorial Technology to Elucidate the "f" of Clinical fMRS (functional Magnetic SpectroscopyReggie Taylor, Jean Theberge, Peter Williamson, Maria Densmore and Richard Neufeld 18. Applications of Capacity Analysis into Social Cognition DomainAlla Yankouskaya, Jie Sui, Zahra Moradi, Pia Rotshtein, and Glyn W. Humphreys
