Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 3,1999
@1999 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences


Volume 3, Issue 1, Jan, 1999

Modeling Human Motor Systems in Nonlinear Dynamics: Intentionality and Discrete Movement Behaviors.
Keith Davids, Chris Button, & Simon Bennett, pg. 3
Keywords: movement coordination, nonlinear dynamics, discrete prehension movements, intentionality, individual differences
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Confidence Judgments for Discriminations in Nonlinear Psychophysics.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 31
Keywords: psychophysics, probability, decision, confidence, nonlinear systems
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Estimation of Correlation Dimension to Evaluate Cognitive Performance in Schizophrenic Patients Using a New Computer Technique.
Roberto Hornero, Alonso Alonso, Natalia Jimeno, Agustin Jimeno, & Miguel Lopez, pg. 49
Keywords: schizophrenia, attractor, correlation dimension
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Whose Thoughts Are They, Anyway? Dimensionally Exploding Bion's "Double-Headed Arrow" into Coadapting, Transitional Space.
A. H. Stein, pg. 65
Keywords: nonlinear dynamical systems, philosophy of psychoanalysis, thinking, W. R. Bion, D. W. Winnicott
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Modeling Historical Development: Fitting a Competing Practices System to Coded Archival Data.
David K. Dirlam, Karen L. Gamble, & Heidi S. Lloyd, pg. 93
Keywords: developmental models, historical models, cultural practices, Lotka-Volterra models, developmental methodology
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BOOK REVIEW: Chaos and Complexity: Implications for Psychological Theory and Practice, by Michael Butz.
Allan Combs, pg. 113
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Corrections.
pg. 127
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Volume 3, Issue 2, Apr, 1999

Progressive Coherence Patterns for Electroencephalographic Phenomenology.
T. A. Minelli & L. Turicchia, pg. 129
Keywords: human electroencephalogram (EEG), brain waves, spectral coherence, wavelets, synchronization, nonlinear models, neurodynamics
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A Cusp Catastrophe Approach to the Prediction of Temporal Patterns in the Kill Dates of Individual Serial Murderers.
Rense Lange, pg. 143
Keywords: serial murderers, cusp catastrophe, Lyapunov dimension, criminal behavior, phase portrait
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The Dynamics of Long-Range Financial Accumulation and Crisis.
Trond Andresen, pg. 161
Keywords: economy, finance, simulation, accumulation, crisis
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BOOK REVIEW: Mind as Motion. Edited by Robert F. Port and Timothy Van Gelder. Cambridge, MA.
Douglas Vickers
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About the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology Life Sciences.
pg. 207
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Volume 3, Issue 3, Jul, 1999

Psychophysiology, Cortical Arousal and Dynamical Complexity (DCX).
Paul A. Watters, pg. 211
Keywords: EEG, chaos, correlation dimension, dimensional complexity
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Narrow Parameter Windows and Analogues of Contextual Noise in Nonlinear Psychophysics.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 235
Keywords: psychophysics, cubic, cross-coupling, edge of chaos, parameter windows
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Nonlinear Dynamics of Motivational Flow.
Stephen J. Guastello, Elizabeth A. Johnson, & Mark L. Rieke, pg. 259
Keywords: Intrinsic motivation, flow, chaos, activity log, work and leisure
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Endogenous Opening Policy and Nonlinear Economic Development — Physical Capital, Human Capital and Economic Structure.
Wei-Bin Zhang, pg. 275
Keywords: Economic development, China, openness, multiple equilibria, limit cycles, catastrophe
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BOOK REVIEW: Physical Theory in Biology Foundations and Explorations, by Charles J. Lumsden, Wendy A. Brandts, and Lynn E. H. Trainor (Eds.).
William Sulis, pg. 301
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BOOK REVIEW: The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. Ilya Prigogine.
Matthijs Koopmans, pg. 305
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Volume 3, Issue 4, Oct, 1999

The Self as a Dynamical System.
Terry Marks-Tarlow, pg. 311
Keywords: self, dynamical system, process-structure, self-organization, edge of chaos
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The Effect of Downsizing on Hierarchical Work Flow Dynamics in Organizations.
Stephen J. Guastello & Elizabeth A. Johnson, pg. 347
Keywords: hierarchy, downsizing, chaos, organizations, productivity
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BOOK REVIEW: Dynamics of Complex Systems, by Yaneer Bar-Yam. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
William Sulis, pg. 379
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Ad Hoc Reviewers for 1998.
pg. 389
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