Contemporary theories of 1/f noise in motor control

• Autor(a) principal: Diniz, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Wijnants, Maarten L., Torre, Kjerstin, Barreiros, João, Crato, Nuno, Bosman, Anna M.T., Hasselman, Fred, Cox, Ralf F.A., Van Orden, Guy C., Delignières, Didier
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/27665
• topic: 1/f Noise; Long-range Dependence; Coordination; Variability

1/f noise has been discovered in a number of time series collected in psychological and behavioral experiments. This ubiquitous phenomenon has been ignored for a long time and classical models were not designed for accounting for these long-range correlations. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss contrasted theoretical perspectives on 1/f noise, in order to provide a comprehensive overview of current debates in this domain. In a first part, we pro pose a formal definition of the phenomenon of 1/f noise, and we present some commonly used methods for measuring long-range correlations in time series. In a second part, we develop a theoretiical position that considers 1/f noise as the hallmark of system complexity. From this point of view, 1/f noise emerges from the coordination of the many elements that compose the system. In a third part, we present a theoretical counterpoint suggesting that 1/f noise could emerge from localized sources within the system. In conclusion, we try to draw some lines of reasoning for going beyond the opposition between these two approaches.