Abstract
In Chaps. 6 and 7 primarily qualitative aspects about the emergence of patterns in human pattern formation systems were discussed. For example, individuals performing different activities in succession have been described in terms of attractor pattern sequences. In contrast, in this chapter quantitative aspects of pattern formation will be discussed and will be related to continuous reactions of humans. That is, considerations will be made about the properties of attractor patterns measured in terms of continuous variables. Examples for continuous variables are reading times, reaction times, magnitude “estimates”, biophysical quantities such as oxygen consumption, and ratings on Likert scales.
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Although strictly speaking, Likert scales are discrete scales, what is at issue here is that variables on Likert scales do not correspond to categorical variables but to numerical variables.
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Much of what will be presented in what follows also applies to experiments that involve categorical independent variables (for an example see Sect. 10.6.2).
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Note that this inverted U-shaped character is not visible in Fig. 3.5a due to the relative large scale of the vertical axis.
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And not for other reasons; e.g., the lower boundary values are increased as in the retrieval-induced “forgetting” model, see Sect. 7.4.1.
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More precisely, it is the amplitude of the unstable basis pattern giving rise to the BBA pattern of interest.
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That is, participants produced BA patterns about standing on the ramps without performing the posture body pattern. In doing so, participants made “judgments” about whether or not they were able to stand on ramps given certain inclination angles.
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And will or will not do so depending on the reader’s brain structure and brain state without making any “decision”.
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Frank, T. (2019). Pattern Formation and Continuous Reactions. In: Determinism and Self-Organization of Human Perception and Performance. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28821-1_8
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