ReviewNonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences2015
Complex Adaptive Behavior and Dexterous Action.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The effects of walking speed and mobile phone use on the walking dynamics of young adults.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Hurst-Kolmogorov Process is a More Reliable and Statistically Powerful Alternative to Detrended Fluctuation Analysis for Estimating Hurst in Short Walking Trials.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Stride-to-Stride Fluctuations and Temporal Patterns of Muscle Activity Exhibit a Stronger Relationship in Running-Induced Fatigue.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2026Article
- Human movement patterns predict task-unrelated thought.PloS one · 2026Article
- Gait after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction fails to exhibit task-sensitive modulations of dynamic stability: A preliminary analysis.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2025Article
- Postural sway variability in young adults presents higher complexity during morning compared to evening hours while in older adults remains the same.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
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- Restoring the complexity of walking in the elderly and its impact on clinical measures around the risk of falls.Frontiers in network physiology · 2025Article
- Biomechanical Assessment Methods Used in Chronic Stroke: A Scoping Review of Non-Linear Approaches.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Stride-to-stride fluctuations and temporal patterns of muscle activity exhibit similar responses during walking to variable visual cues.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
- Spatial variability and directional shifts in postural control in Parkinson's disease.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2024Article
- Muscle activity variability patterns and stride to stride fluctuations of older adults are positively correlated during walking.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Stride-to-Stride Fluctuations of Human Gait Are Affected By Chronobiology: An Exploratory Study.Advanced biology · 2023Article
- Multifractality in stride-to-stride variations reveals that walking involves more movement tuning and adjusting than running.Frontiers in network physiology · 2023Article
- Modulation of lower limb muscles and trajectory correction in the bipedal stance during visual perturbation.PeerJ · 2023Article
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- A guide to Whittle maximum likelihood estimator in MATLAB.Frontiers in network physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Dexterous action, as conceptualized by Bernstein in his influential ecological analysis of human behavior, is revealed in the ability to flexibly generate behaviors that are adaptively tailored to the demands of the context in which they are embedded. Conceived as complex adaptive behavior, dexterity depends upon the qualities of robustness and degeneracy, and is supported by the functional complexity of the agent-environment system. Using Bernstein's and Gibson's ecological analyses of behavior situated in natural environments as conceptual touchstones, we consider the hypothesis that complex adaptive behavior capitalizes upon general principles of self-organization. Here, we outline a perspective in which the complex interactivity of nervous-system, body, and environment is revealed as an essential resource for adaptive behavior. From this perspective, we consider the implications for interpreting the functionality and dysfunctionality of human behavior. This paper demonstrates that, optimal variability, the topic of this special issue, is a logical consequence of interpreting the functionality of human behavior as complex adaptive behavior.
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