Behavioral and physiological correlates of kinetically tracking a chaotic target.

ABSTRACT: Humans can innately track a moving target by anticipating its future position from a brief history of observations. While ballistic trajectories can be readily extrapolated, many natural and artificial systems are governed by more general nonlinear dynamics and, therefore, can produce highly irregular motion. Yet, relatively little is known regarding the behavioral and physiological underpinnings of prediction and tracking in the presence of chaos. Here, we investigated in lab settings whether participants could manually follow the orbit of a paradigmatic chaotic system, the Rössler equations, on the (x,y) plane under different settings of a control parameter, which determined the prominence of transients in the target position. Tracking accuracy was negatively related to the level of unpr

SUBMITTER: Takagi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7500904 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature