1/F NOISE IN HUMAN COGNITION

被引:500
作者
GILDEN, DL
THORNTON, T
MALLON, MW
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin
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D O I
10.1126/science.7892611
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
When a person attempts to produce from memory a given spatial or temporal interval, there is inevitably some error associated with the estimate. The time course of this error was measured in a series of experiments where subjects repeatedly attempted to replicate given target intervals. Sequences of the errors in both spatial and temporal replications were found to fluctuate as 1/f noises. 1/f noise is encountered in a wide variety of physical systems and is theorized to be a characteristic signature of complexity.
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页码:1837 / 1839
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