Society for Mathematical Psychology

Luce Outstanding Paper Award Recognizes Team Across Three German Universities

Thomas Richter, Rolf Ulrich and Markus Janczyk win the 2025 R. Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award.

MATHPSYCH.ORG —

Thomas Richter, Rolf Ulrich and Markus Janczyk were awarded the prestigious Society for Mathematical Psychology 2025 R. Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award 2025 on 27 July 2025. This award is given to the paper selected as most outstanding from those published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology in the prior three years. The team was recognized for their paper entitled "Diffusion models with time-dependent parameters: An analysis of computational effort and accuracy of different numerical methods" (Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Volume 114, June 2023, 102756; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2023.102756).

According to the nomination, "This article provides a rigorous and clear presentation and analysis of methods for obtaining response time and accuracy predictions for diffusion models with time-varying drift rates and decision boundaries...For the researcher asking "what is the best method to use for my particular problem?" the article provides something of a one-stop shop to answer that question."

Thomas Richter is Professor of Analysis and Numerics in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Universität Magdeburg, Germany.

Rolf Ulrich is Professor of Cognition & Perception at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Markus Janczyk is Professor of Psychological Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bremen, Germany.

You can read the full paper at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022249623000123

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