Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: An experiment was conducted in order to characterize the intrinsic fluctuations of human behavior as they are reflected in multiple repetitions of a single spoken word.Ten participants repeated the word "bucket" 1100 times, and fluctuations across repetitions in the acoustic measures of syllable duration, peak pitch, peak intensity and spectral intensity were analyzed for power law scaling relations.All measures for all subjects showed fluctuations resembling the scaling relation known as 1/f noise, with many distinct streams of 1/f noise running in parallel.These results provide evidence for the emergent basis of human behavior.
Authors: Gregory G. Anderson, Christopher T. Kello
Institution: George Mason University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2765145294