Advantages of Rhythmic Movements at Resonance: Minimal Active Degrees of Freedom, Minimal Noise, and Maximal Predictability

• Published in: Journal of motor behavior Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 3 - 8
• Main Authors: Goodman, Lon, Riley, Michael A., Mitra, Suvobrata, Turvey, M. T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Taylor & Francis Group 01.03.2000; Heldref; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Activity levels. Psychomotricity; Algorithms; Anatomy; Biological and medical sciences; degrees of freedom; dynamics; Forecasting; Freedom; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Laboratory Equipment; Movement; Noise; Nonlinear Dynamics; Periodicity; phase space reconstruction; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor activities; resonance; rhythmic movement; Sampling; Time Factors; Human; Freedom degree; Dynamics; Body movement; Rhythm; Cognition; Upper limb; Experimental study; Motricity

Using time delay embedding, the authors applied phase space reconstruction to the time series of rhythmic movements of a hand-held pendulum. Subjects (N = 6) produced the manual oscillations about the wrist at the pendulum's resonant frequency and at a higher and a lower frequency. The number o...