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Citation

Zanone PG, Kelso JA. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1992; 18(2): 403-421.

Affiliation

Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton 33431-0991.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1593227

Abstract

Learning a bimanual coordination task (synchronization to a visually specified phasing relation) was studied as a dynamical process over 5 days of practicing a required phasing pattern. Systematic probes of the attractor layout of the 5 Ss' coordination dynamics (expressed through a collective variable, relative phase) were conducted before, during, and after practice. Depending on the relationship between the initial coordination dynamics (so-called intrinsic dynamics) and the pattern to be learned (termed behavioral information, which acts as an attractor of the coordination dynamics toward the required phasing), qualitative changes in the phase diagram occurred with learning, accompanied by quantitative evidence for loss of stability (phase transitions). Such effects persisted beyond 1 week. The nature of change due to learning (e.g., abrupt vs. gradual) is shown to arise from the cooperative or competitive interplay between behavioral information and the intrinsic dynamics.


Language: en

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