Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: A recent set of experiments of ours supported the notion of a transition in experience from readiness-to-hand to unreadiness-tohand proposed by phenomenological philosopher Martin Heidegger.They were also an experimental demonstration of an extended cognitive system.We generated and then temporarily disrupted an interaction-dominant system that spans a human participant, a computer mouse, and a task performed on the computer screen.Our claim that this system was interaction dominant was based on the detection of 1/f noise at the hand-tool interface.The inference from the presence of 1/f noise to the presence of an interaction-dominant system is occasionally disputed.Increasing evidence suggests that inference from multifractality to interaction dominance is more certain than 1/flike scaling alone.In this paper, we reanalyze the data using the wavelet transform modulus maxima method, showing that the human-mouse system displays multifractality.This reinforces our claims that the system is interaction dominant.
Authors: Lin Nie, Dobromir Dotov, Anthony Chemero
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2575028519