A two-state model of simple reaction time

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of neural pulses. For the estimation, the timing model uses
the inter-arrival-intervals of pulses and the counting model
uses the number of pulses during a fixed time interval. For
these models, Green and Luce(1974) derived the following equations
for the mean two-choice reaction times for auditory stimuli;
For the timing model,
p ·MRT - p ·MRT
c c e e
For the counting model,
(1-13)
(1-14)
(1-15 )
(1-16 )
In the above equations, MRT 1 and MRT 2 are the mean reaction
times for the two stimuli, 8 1 and 8 2 , MRT c and MRT e are the
mean reaction times of the correct responses and errors, and
Pc and Pe are the probabilities of the correct responses and
errors. Eq.(1-13) means that MRT 1 is a linear function of MRT 2 •
Eq. (1-14) means that Pc MRT c - Pe MRT e
is an approximately