Entropic Movement Complexity Reflects Subjective Creativity Rankings of Visualized Hand Motion Trajectories.

ABSTRACT: In a previous study we have shown that human motion trajectories can be characterized by translating continuous trajectories into symbol sequences with well-defined complexity measures. Here we test the hypothesis that the motion complexity individuals generate in their movements might be correlated to the degree of creativity assigned by a human observer to the visualized motion trajectories. We asked participants to generate 55 novel hand movement patterns in virtual reality, where each pattern had to be repeated 10 times in a row to ensure reproducibility. This allowed us to estimate a probability distribution over trajectories for each pattern. We assessed motion complexity not only by the previously proposed complexity measures on symbolic sequences, but we also propose two novel comp

SUBMITTER: Peng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4681813 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature