A tutorial on multifractality, cascades, and interactivity for empirical time series in ecological science

DG Kelty-Stephen, K Palatinus, E Saltzman… - Ecological …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Interactivity is a central theme of ecological psychology. According to Gibsonian views,
behavior is the emergent property of interactions between organism and environment …

Turing's cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior

DG Kelty-Stephen, M Mangalam - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Turing inspired a computer metaphor of the mind and brain that has been handy and has
spawned decades of empirical investigation, but he did much more and offered behavioral …

Multifractal signatures of perceptual processing on anatomical sleeves of the human body

M Mangalam, NS Carver… - Journal of The Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Research into haptic perception typically concentrates on mechanoreceptors and their
supporting neuronal processes. This focus risks ignoring crucial aspects of active …

On the psychological origins of tool use

M Mangalam, DM Fragaszy, JB Wagman… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ubiquity of tool use in human life has generated multiple lines of scientific and
philosophical investigation to understand the development and expression of humans' …

Multifractal roots of suprapostural dexterity

DG Kelty-Stephen, IC Lee, NS Carver… - Human Movement …, 2021 - Elsevier
Visually guided postural control emerges in response to task constraints. Task constraints
generate physiological fluctuations that foster the exploration of available sensory …

Multifractal auditory stimulation promotes the effect of multifractal torso sway on spatial perception: Evidence from distance perception by blindwalking

D Kelty-Stephen, OD Similton, E Rabinowitz… - Ecological …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Stimulation and movement interact non-linearly across multiple scales—a point empirically
and quantitatively available through multifractal structure. Multifractal movements might …

Multiplicative-cascade dynamics supports whole-body coordination for perception via effortful touch

M Mangalam, DG Kelty-Stephen - Human Movement Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Effortful touch by the hand is essential to engaging with and perceiving properties of objects.
The temporal structure of whole-body coordination must reflect the prospective control that …

Global broadcasting of local fractal fluctuations in a bodywide distributed system supports perception via effortful touch

M Mangalam, NS Carver, DG Kelty-Stephen - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
A long history of research has pointed to the importance of fractal fluctuations in physiology,
but so far, the physiological evidence of fractal fluctuations has been piecemeal and without …

Haptic perceptual intent in quiet standing affects multifractal scaling of postural fluctuations.

Z Palatinus, DG Kelty-Stephen… - Journal of …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Research on dynamic touch has shown that when a rod strapped to the shoulders is wielded
via axial rotations, flexions-extensions, and lateral bending of the trunk, participants can …

Multifractal foundations of visually-guided aiming and adaptation to prismatic perturbation

NS Carver, D Bojovic, DG Kelty-Stephen - Human movement science, 2017 - Elsevier
Visually-guided action of tossing to a target allows examining coordination between
mechanical information for maintaining posture while throwing and visual information for …