Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Methods Meetings

Fitting drift-diffusion models with simulation

Last week, Raphael presented a fantastic conceptual introduction to drift diffusion models, which are an extension of signal detection models over time. Here I’ll be talking about what model fitting...

Drift Diffusion Models for Psychological Science

Signal Detection, Theory and Practice

Signal detection in math and psychology

Power Analysis Through Simulation

So, you’re designing an experiment and you’re faced with answering the age-old question: How many participants do I need for this experiment to work? Probably, your advisor sent you down...

Hidden Markov Models

Unconvoluting convolutions - an introduction and applications to neuroscience

If you’ve worked with any kind of neural data, convolutions were involved at some point. Having an intuition for convolutions is quite useful in thinking about what your data actually...