- Title
- Release the BEESTS: bayesian estimation of ex-gaussian stop-signal reaction time distributions
- Creator
- Matzke, Dora; Love, Jonathon; Wiecki, Thomas V.; Brown, Scott D.; Logan, Gordon; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
- Relation
- Frontiers in Psychology Vol. 4, Issue Dec, no. 918
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00918
- Publisher
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The stop-signal paradigm is frequently used to study response inhibition. In this paradigm, participants perform a two-choice response time (RT) task where the primary task is occasionally interrupted by a stop-signal that prompts participants to withhold their response. The primary goal is to estimate the latency of the unobservable stop response (stop signal reaction time or SSRT). Recently, Matzke et al. (2013) have developed a Bayesian parametric approach (BPA) that allows for the estimation of the entire distribution of SSRTs. The BPA assumes that SSRTs are ex-Gaussian distributed and uses Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling to estimate the parameters of the SSRT distribution. Here we present an efficient and user-friendly software implementation of the BPA-BEESTS-that can be applied to individual as well as hierarchical stop-signal data. BEESTS comes with an easy-to-use graphical user interface and provides users with summary statistics of the posterior distribution of the parameters as well various diagnostic tools to assess the quality of the parameter estimates. The software is open source and runs on Windows and OS X operating systems. In sum, BEESTS allows experimental and clinical psychologists to estimate entire distributions of SSRTs and hence facilitates the more rigorous analysis of stop-signal data.
- Subject
- stop-signal paradigm; stop-signal RT distribution; ex-Gaussian distribution; hierarchical Bayesian modeling; statistical software
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341869
- Identifier
- uon:28834
- Identifier
- ISSN:1664-1078
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Hits: 3725
- Visitors: 4122
- Downloads: 225
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT02 | Publisher version (open access) | 3 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |