The complexities of keeping the beat: dynamical structure in the nested behaviors of finger tapping

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Charles A CoeyMichael J Richardson

Abstract

Recent research on fractal scaling in simple human behaviors (e.g., reaction time tasks) has demonstrated that different aspects of the performance (e.g., key presses and key releases) all reveal pink noise signals but yet are uncorrelated with one another in time. These studies have suggested that the independence of these signals might be due to the functional independence of these different sub-actions, given the task constraints. The current experiments investigated whether under a different set of constraints (e.g., finger tapping with and without a metronome) nested sub-actions might show interrelated dynamics, and whether manipulations affecting the fractal scaling of one also might have consequences for the scaling of others. Experiment 1 revealed that the inter-tap intervals and key-press durations of participants' tapping behavior were dynamically related to one another and that the fractal scaling of both changed in the switch from self-paced to metronome-paced tapping. Consistent with past research, the inter-tap intervals changed toward an antipersistent, blue noise pattern of variation, but the key-press durations became even more persistent. Experiment 2 revealed that this pattern of results could be altered by a...Continue Reading

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