The Self-Organization of Cognitive Structure

Dixon, James A.; Stephen, Damian G.; Boncoddo, Rebecca; Anastas, Jason

doi:10.1016/s0079-7421(10)52009-7

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“…Sensitivity to events across such a wide variety of scales makes search behavior more thorough and effective (Bartumeus, Catalan, Fulco, Lyra, & Viswanathan, 2002;Reynolds, 2010). Indeed, temporally fractal fluctuations in exploratory movements (by the hand and eye) facilitate the detection of information in perceptual tasks (Dixon, Stephen, Boncoddo, & Anastas, 2010;Stephen & Anastas, 2011;Stephen, Boncoddo, Magnuson, & Dixon, 2009). Most relevant to the present article, temporally fractal fluctuations in wielding movements promote accuracy in judgments during dynamic touch by the hand .…”

Section: Long-range Temporal Correlations In Exploratory Movementsmentioning

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Transfer of calibration between hand and foot: Functional equivalence and fractal fluctuations

Stephen

Hajnal

2011

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Transfer of competency in a perceptual task often depends on shared information between anatomically different perceptual subsystems. The problem of studying transfer involves isolating conditions of similarity and then trying to account for any resulting differences in transfer. To respect this twofold aspect, this article takes a twopronged approach to transfer in dynamic touch. The present research first tests the hypothesis that functional equivalence supports the transfer of dynamic touch. Participants were trained to wield unseen objects with the hand or foot and were then tested on anatomically disparate limbs (i.e., the foot or hand, respectively). Next, we examined motion capture of these wielding behaviors for predictors of any asymmetry in transfer. Temporally fractal fluctuations of exploratory behavior can modulate information detection, and we tested whether the fractality of wielding might predict asymmetries in transfer across disparate limbs. Results suggest that transfer of training to anatomically disparate limbs respects functional conditions of similarity and also that the degree of temporally fractal fluctuations predicted limb differences in transfer.

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Section: Long-range Temporal Correlations In Exploratory Movementsmentioning

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Transfer of calibration between hand and foot: Functional equivalence and fractal fluctuations

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Hajnal

2011

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“…The researchers in the dynamics crowd have identified elegant ways of understanding what goes on during the process of self-organization (even in high-level cognition; see, e.g. Dixon, Stephen, Boncoddo, & Anastas, 2010). Many of these dynamical concepts are descriptions of form rather than function.…”

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The Self-Organization of Human Interaction

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Fusaroli

Duran

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Psychology of Learning and Motivation

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“…moment has recently been reported using entropy and based on notions of self-organising criticality (Stephen et al 2009). In this direction, some of the most exciting work has been carried out in transfer entropy (Dixon et al 2010) applied to self-organising criticality and how it is the entropy that drives massive transitional changes in cognitive structures.…”

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Information and phase transitions in socio-economic systems

Bossomaier

Barnett

Harré

2013

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We examine the role of information-based measures in detecting and analysing phase transitions. We contend that phase transitions have a general character, visible in transitions in systems as diverse as classical flocking models, human expertise, and social networks. Information-based measures such as mutual information and transfer entropy are particularly suited to detecting the change in scale and range of coupling in systems that herald a phase transition in progress, but their use is not necessarily straightforward, possessing difficulties in accurate estimation due to limited sample sizes and the complexities of analysing non-stationary time series. These difficulties are surmountable with careful experimental choices. Their effectiveness in revealing unexpected connections between diverse systems makes them a promising tool for future research.

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The Self-Organization of Cognitive Structure

Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

Transfer of calibration between hand and foot: Functional equivalence and fractal fluctuations

Transfer of calibration between hand and foot: Functional equivalence and fractal fluctuations

The Self-Organization of Human Interaction

Information and phase transitions in socio-economic systems

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