Haskins Publications

Number	1532
Year	2009
Drawer	27
Entry Date	04/13/2009
Authors	Holden, J.G., Van Orden, G.C., Turvey, M.T.
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Publication	Psychological Review, v. 116: no. 2, pp. 318-342.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1532.pdf
Abstract	Trial-to-trial variation in word-pronunciation times exhibits 1/f scaling. One explanation is that human performances are consequent on multiplicative interactions among interdependent processes-interaction dominant dynamics. This article describes simulated distributions of pronunciation times in a further test for multiplicative interactions and interdependence. Individual participant distributions of ~1,100 word-pronunciation times were successfully mimicked for each participant in combinations of lognormal and power-law behavior. Successful hazard function simulations generalized these results to establish interaction dominant dynamics, in contrast with component dominant dynamics, as a likely mechanism for cognitive activity.
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