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Science 24 March 1995:
Vol. 267. no. 5205, pp. 1837 - 1839
DOI: 10.1126/science.7892611
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Science, Vol 267, Issue 5205, 1837-1839
Copyright © 1995 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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1/f noise in human cognition

DL Gilden, T Thornton, and MW Mallon

Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 78712.

When a person attempts to produce from memory a given spatial or temporal interval, there is inevitably some error associated with the estimate. The time course of this error was measured in a series of experiments where subjects repeatedly attempted to replicate given target intervals. Sequences of the errors in both spatial and temporal replications were found to fluctuate as 1/f noises. 1/f noise is encountered in a wide variety of physical systems and is theorized to be a characteristic signature of complexity.


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