WITHDRAWN

How do people judge the order of two nearly simultaneous stimuli, such as a light and a tone?We consider this question in the context of a general independent-channels model that incorporates most existing models of order perception as special cases, and which has been implicitly assumed when temporal-order judgments are used to study perceptual latency.In the model, a "decision function" converts a difference in central "arrival times" of two sensory signals into an order judgment.The psychometric function for order is regarded as a distribution function, and can be represented additively in terms of the central arrival latencies and the decision function.Various distinct decision functions correspond to…