Table 1 Glossary of Model Parameters
From: Mapping computational cognitive profiles of aging to dissociable brain and sociodemographic factors
Task | Parameter | Abbreviation | Definition |
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Go/No-Go | Go drift rate | v.go | Quantifies efficiency of evidence accumulation toward Go stimulus |
Go/No-Go | No-Go drift rate | v.nogo | Quantifies efficiency of evidence accumulation toward No-Go stimulus |
Go/No-Go | Average drift rate | v.average | Quantifies efficiency of evidence accumulation towards both stimuli. |
Go/No-Go | Starting point | z | Indexes response bias. ↑ values = bias towards responding; ↓ values = bias for not responding |
Go/No-Go | Non-decision time | Ter | Time taken up by processes irrelevant to decision-making, e.g., motor responses |
Go/No-Go | Boundary separation | a | Indexes speed-accuracy trade-off. ↑ values = more careful responding at expense of speed, ↓ values = prioritising speed over accuracy |
WCST | Reward rate | r | Quantifies how quickly participants update beliefs about a choice following rewarding/positive feedback |
WCST | Punishment rate | p | Quantifies how quickly participants update beliefs about a choice following punishing/negative feedback |
WCST | Decision-consistency | d | Indexes the extent to which participants make choices more consistent with the present rule (↑d) or more exploratory choices (↓d) |
WCST | Attentional focusing | f | Indexes the degree to which attention is narrowly focused on a specific rule over others, in trials where feedback is ambiguous |