Nonlinear Dynamics: Techniques and Applications in Psychology
- ISBN-10
- 1135670544
- ISBN-13
- 9781135670542
- Series
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-04
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Richard A. Heath
Description
Additional Resource Materials Human behavior would not be interesting to us if it remained the same from one moment to the next. Moreover, we tend to be sensitive to changes in people's behavior, especially when such change impacts on our own, and other's, behavior. This book describes a variety of techniques for investigating change in behavior. It employs conventional time series methods, as well as recently developed methodology using nonlinear dynamics, including chaos, a term that is not easy to define, nor to confirm. Although nonlinear methods are being used more frequently in psychology, a comprehensive coverage of methods, theory and applications, with a particular focus on human behavior, is needed. Between these covers, the reader is led through various procedures for linear and nonlinear time series analysis, including some novel procedures that allow subtle temporal aspects of human cognition to be detected. Analyses of reaction times, heart-rate, psychomotor skill, decision making, and EEG are supplemented by a contemporary review of recent dynamical research in developmental psychology, psychopathology, and human cognitive processes. A consideration of nonlinear dynamics assists our understanding of deep issues such as: Why is our short-term memory capacity limited? Why do chronic disorders, and also cognitive development, progress through stage-like transitions? Why do people make irrational decisions? This book will be of particular interest to researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in a variety of areas in psychology, particularly in human experimental and physiological psychology. Data analyses are performed using the latest nonlinear dynamics computer packages. A comprehensive WWW resource of software and supplementary information is provided to assist the reader's understanding of the novel, and potentially revolutionary, procedures described in the book.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2022-03-14
- 236 pages
- Paperback
- Springer
-
- 2022-03-13
- 243 pages
- Ebook
- Springer Nature
-
- 2019-05-01
- 190 pages
- Paperback
- Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Similar books
-
Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics
By Daniel Kaplan, Leon GlassThus, the purpose of this textbook series is to meet the current and future needs of these advances and encourage the teaching of new courses.
-
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
By Steven H. StrogatzThis textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject.
-
Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability, Chaos and Patterns
By Muthusamy Lakshmanan, Shanmuganathan RajaseekarIntegrability, chaos and patterns are three of the most important concepts in nonlinear dynamics. These are covered in this book from fundamentals to recent developments.
-
Applied Nonlinear Dynamics: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods
By Ali H. Nayfeh, Balakumar BalachandranThis book contains numerous worked-out examples that illustrate the new concepts of nonlinear dynamics.
-
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
By J. M. T. Thompson, H. B. StewartSince the bestselling first edition was published, there has been a lot of new research conducted in the area of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. * Expands on the bestselling, highly regarded first edition * A new chapter which will cover the ...
-
Nonlinear Dynamics: A Two-Way Trip from Physics to Math
By H.G SolariThe selection of topics emphasizes bifurcation theory and topological analysis of dynamical systems. The book includes real-life problems and experiments as well as exercises and work
-
Perspectives of Nonlinear Dynamics: Volume 1
By E. Atlee JacksonIn this book the perspectives generated by analytical, topological and computational methods, and interplays between them, are developed in a variety of contexts.
-
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Where do we go from here?
By J Hogan, A.R Krauskopf, Mario di BernadoNow it is time to focus on real-life problems that are high-dimensional or ill-defined, for example, due to delay, spatial extent, stochasticity, or the limited nature of available data. How can one understand the dynamics of such sys
-
Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction
By Michael TaborPresents the newer field of chaos in nonlinear dynamics as a natural extension of classical mechanics as treated by differential equations. Employs Hamiltonian systems as the link between classical and...
-
Nonlinear Dynamics in Circuits
By Thomas L. Carroll, Louis M. Pecora... nonlinear dynamics . I review the application of electronic circuits to a range of issues that have been important in the development of nonlinear dynamics over the past dozen years : period doubling , two frequency quasiperiodicity ...