Editor's Introduction and Review: Coordination and Context in Cognitive Science

Kello, Christopher T.

doi:10.1111/tops.12302

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“…Indeed, studies in behavioral sciences have always justified the capacity of fractal variety to offer new insights (Diniz et al, 2011; Dixon et al, 2012). Any notion of a privileged level or direction of fractal variety (Kello, 2018) might be best understood as a reaction to critical, unreceptive perspectives resistant to seeing any fractality or multifractality appear in behavioral-science discourse at all (Wagenmakers et al, 2012). Measurements may wax and wane in their multifractal structure.…”

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“…Indeed, studies in behavioral sciences have always justified the capacity of fractal variety to offer new insights [79,80]. Any notion of a privileged level or direction of fractal variety [81] might be best understood as a reaction to critical perspectives suggesting that the discourse in behavioral sciences should have much less or perhaps zero fractality or multifractality in [82]. Measurements may wax and wane in their multifractal structure.…”

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Multifractality in postural sway supports quiet eye training in aiming tasks: A study of golf putting

Jacobson¹,

Berleman-Paul²,

Mangalam

et al. 2020

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The 'quiet eye' (QE) approach to visually-guided aiming behavior invests fully in perceptual information's potential to organize coordinated action. Sports psychologists refer to QE as the stillness of the eyes during aiming tasks and increasingly into self- and externally-paced tasks. Amidst the 'noisy' fluctuations of the athlete's body, quiet eyes might leave fewer saccadic interruptions to the coupling between postural sway and optic flow. Multifractality in postural sway is a robust predictor of both visual and haptic perceptual responses. Postural sway generates optic flow centered on an individual's eye height. So, we manipulated the eye height part way through a golf-putting task for participants trained in QE or trained technically as per conventional golf putting. We predicted that perturbing the eye height by attaching wooden blocks below the feet would perturb the putting more so in QE-trained participants than in those trained technically. We also predicted that responses to this perturbation would depend on multifractality in postural sway. Specifically, we predicted that less multifractality would predict more adaptive responses to the perturbation and higher putting accuracy. Results supported both predictions. QE training and lower multifractality led to more frequent successful putts, and the perturbation of eye height led to less frequent successful putts, particularly for QE-trained participants. Models of radial error (i.e., the distance between the ball's final position and the hole) indicated that lower estimates of multifractality due to nonlinearity coincided with a more adaptive response to the perturbation. These results challenge the past suggestions that reduced multifractality might be a signature of diseased posture. Instead, they suggest that reduced multifractality may act in a context-sensitive manner to restrain motoric degrees of freedom to achieve the task goal.

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