Signal Detection

Michael L. Commons, John A. Nevin, Michael C. Davison

• Contents: M.L. Commons, Preface. J.A. Nevin, M.C. Davison, M.L. Commons, An Introduction to Mechanisms, Models, and Applications of Signal Detection. Part IMechanisms.W.J. McGill, M.C. Teich, Auditory Signal Detection and Amplification in a Neural Transmission Network. B. Alsop, Behavioral Models of Detection and Detection Models of Choice. M. Davison, Stimulus Discriminability, Contingency Discriminability, and Complex Stimulus Control. Part II:Models.J.G. Fetterman, Discrimination of Temporal Same-Different Relations by Pigeons. W.K. Honig, Discriminability and Distinctiveness in Complex Arrays of Simple Elements. S. Chase, E.J. Heinemann, Memory Limitations in Human and Animal Signal Detection. M.L. Commons, M. Woodford, E.J. Trudeau, How Each Reinforcer Contributes to Value: "Noise" Must Reduce Reinforcer Value Hyperbolically. A.W. Logue, M.L. Rodriguez, Signal Detection and Matching: Analyzing Choice on Concurrent Schedules. A.A. Wright, A Detection and Decision Process Model of Matching to Sample. Part IIIApplications.K.G. White, Psychophysics of Direct Remembering. D.C. McCarthy, Behavioral Detection Theory: Some Implications for Applied Human Research. J.A. Nevin, Signal Detection Analysis of Illusions and Heuristics.

"This volume is one of the series' most successful in attaining the goal of quantification. Each of the chapters in this book successfully uses a quantitative method inspired by the theory of signal detectability."—Contemporary Psychology