James A Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5757437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6438-8196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance: The role of musical structure and performance cues
To perform reliably and confidently from memory, musicians must able to recover from mistakes and memory failures. We describe how an experienced singer (the second author) recovered from mistakes and gaps in recall as she periodically recalled the score of a piece of vocal music that she had memorized for public performance, writing out the music six times over a five-year period following the performance. Five years after the performance, the s…
Collective Dissipative Structures, Force Flow Reciprocity, and the Foundations of Perception–Action Mutuality
Physical systems maintained far from equilibrium exhibit self-organization of structure and behavior. These dissipative structures can exhibit life-like qualities and activities, such as collective and coordinated behaviors. We review such collective behaviors in electrical and chemical dissipative structures. Electrical dissipative structures can functionally coordinate their behaviors to maximize the rate of entropy production. Coupled oscillat…
Gesture Networks: Introducing Dynamic Time Warping and Network Analysis for the Kinematic Study of Gesture Ensembles
We introduce applications of established methods in time-series and network analysis that we jointly apply here for the kinematic study of gesture ensembles. We define a gesture ensemble as the set of gestures produced during discourse by a single person or a group of persons. Here we are interested in how gestures kinematically relate to one another. We use a bivariate time-series analysis called dynamic time warping to assess how similar each g…
Spontaneous Interentity Coordination in a Dissipative Structure
Humans and other creatures display remarkable interorganism coordination. For ecological theorists, interorganism coordination poses a challenge because it appears to be an especially “representation-hungry” phenomenon (Clark, 1999 Clark, A. (1999). An embodied cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 345–351.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Ecological researchers have proposed that interorganism coordinati…
Executive Function as an Interaction-Dominant Process
Traditional theories of psychology define the cognitive system as composed of insular, encapsulated components, controlled by a central executive. An alternative hypothesis suggests that cognitive control arises from the complex interaction among temporal scales of activity within the system. We examined the hand motions of preschool-age participants gathered during an executive-function task, card sorting, for evidence of multiplicative interact…
Notes on a Journey From Symbols to Multifractals: A Tribute to Guy Van Orden
Rejecting traditional cognitive science put us in a bind. On the one hand, traditional cognitive science is our heritage; our curiosity about the big questions of cognition led us initially to invest in the conventional approaches. On the other hand, we eventually became dissatisfied with the fundamentals of traditional cognitive science. Rather than criticize from the sidelines, we struggled for a new way to address the same problems with a new …
A Tutorial on Multifractality, Cascades, and Interactivity for Empirical Time Series in Ecological Science
Interactivity is a central theme of ecological psychology. According to Gibsonian views, behavior is the emergent property of interactions between organism and environment. Hence, an important challenge for ecological psychology has been to identify physical principles that provide an empirical window into interactivity. We suspect that multifractality, a concept from statistical physics, may be helpful in this regard, and we offer this article a…
Statistical and computational models of the visual world paradigm: Growth curves and individual differences
The prehistory of discovery: Precursors of representational change in solving gear system problems
Microgenetic research has identified 2 different types of processes that produce representational change: theory revision and redescription. Both processes have been implicated as important sources of developmental change, but their relative status across development has not been addressed. The current study investigated whether (a) the process of representational change undergoes developmental change itself or (b) different processes occupy diff…
The logic of interpreting evidence of developmental ordering: Strong inference and categorical measures
Developmental ordering is a fundamental prediction of developmental theories and a central issue in developmental research.However, logically sound evidence of developmental ordering is difficult to obtain.This article analyzes the logical basis of testing developmental order hypotheses with categorical measures.Depending on whether saltatory (i.e., discrete) or continuous developmental changes are being assessed, the observed relationship betwee…
Developmental ordering, scale types, and strong inference
Developmental ordering, 1 item preceding another in development, is a primary piece of evidence in developmental research. However, testing developmental ordering hypotheses is remarkably difficult; the problem is that researchers rarely have absolute measures (ratio scales). Therefore, directly comparing 2 measures is often not sensible. This article demonstrates that, depending on the type of scale, the observed data pattern is constrained by t…
The developmental role of intuitive principles in choosing mathematical strategies
This study investigated the relation between the development of understanding principles that govern a problem and the development ofmathematical strategies used to solve it. College students and 2nd, 5th, 8th, and I lth graders predicted the resulting temperature when 2 containers of water were combined. Students first estimated answers to the problems and then solved the problems using math. The pattern of estimated answers provided a measure o…
The developmental role of intuitive principles in choosing mathematical strategies
This study investigated the relation between the development of understanding principles that govern a problem and the development ofmathematical strategies used to solve it. College students and 2nd, 5th, 8th, and I lth graders predicted the resulting temperature when 2 containers of water were combined. Students first estimated answers to the problems and then solved the problems using math. The pattern of estimated answers provided a measure o…
The prehistory of discovery: Precursors of representational change in solving gear system problems
Microgenetic research has identified 2 different types of processes that produce representational change: theory revision and redescription. Both processes have been implicated as important sources of developmental change, but their relative status across development has not been addressed. The current study investigated whether (a) the process of representational change undergoes developmental change itself or (b) different processes occupy diff…
Gesture Networks: Introducing Dynamic Time Warping and Network Analysis for the Kinematic Study of Gesture Ensembles
We introduce applications of established methods in time-series and network analysis that we jointly apply here for the kinematic study of gesture ensembles. We define a gesture ensemble as the set of gestures produced during discourse by a single person or a group of persons. Here we are interested in how gestures kinematically relate to one another. We use a bivariate time-series analysis called dynamic time warping to assess how similar each g…
Developmental ordering, scale types, and strong inference
Developmental ordering, 1 item preceding another in development, is a primary piece of evidence in developmental research. However, testing developmental ordering hypotheses is remarkably difficult; the problem is that researchers rarely have absolute measures (ratio scales). Therefore, directly comparing 2 measures is often not sensible. This article demonstrates that, depending on the type of scale, the observed data pattern is constrained by t…
The developmental role of intuitive principles in choosing mathematical strategies
This study investigated the relation between the development of understanding principles that govern a problem and the development ofmathematical strategies used to solve it. College students and 2nd, 5th, 8th, and I lth graders predicted the resulting temperature when 2 containers of water were combined. Students first estimated answers to the problems and then solved the problems using math. The pattern of estimated answers provided a measure o…
Developmental ordering, scale types, and strong inference
Developmental ordering, 1 item preceding another in development, is a primary piece of evidence in developmental research. However, testing developmental ordering hypotheses is remarkably difficult; the problem is that researchers rarely have absolute measures (ratio scales). Therefore, directly comparing 2 measures is often not sensible. This article demonstrates that, depending on the type of scale, the observed data pattern is constrained by t…
The logic of interpreting evidence of developmental ordering: Strong inference and categorical measures
Developmental ordering is a fundamental prediction of developmental theories and a central issue in developmental research.However, logically sound evidence of developmental ordering is difficult to obtain.This article analyzes the logical basis of testing developmental order hypotheses with categorical measures.Depending on whether saltatory (i.e., discrete) or continuous developmental changes are being assessed, the observed relationship betwee…
The prehistory of discovery: Precursors of representational change in solving gear system problems
Microgenetic research has identified 2 different types of processes that produce representational change: theory revision and redescription. Both processes have been implicated as important sources of developmental change, but their relative status across development has not been addressed. The current study investigated whether (a) the process of representational change undergoes developmental change itself or (b) different processes occupy diff…
Statistical and computational models of the visual world paradigm: Growth curves and individual differences
Notes on a Journey From Symbols to Multifractals: A Tribute to Guy Van Orden
Rejecting traditional cognitive science put us in a bind. On the one hand, traditional cognitive science is our heritage; our curiosity about the big questions of cognition led us initially to invest in the conventional approaches. On the other hand, we eventually became dissatisfied with the fundamentals of traditional cognitive science. Rather than criticize from the sidelines, we struggled for a new way to address the same problems with a new …
A Tutorial on Multifractality, Cascades, and Interactivity for Empirical Time Series in Ecological Science
Interactivity is a central theme of ecological psychology. According to Gibsonian views, behavior is the emergent property of interactions between organism and environment. Hence, an important challenge for ecological psychology has been to identify physical principles that provide an empirical window into interactivity. We suspect that multifractality, a concept from statistical physics, may be helpful in this regard, and we offer this article a…
Executive Function as an Interaction-Dominant Process
Traditional theories of psychology define the cognitive system as composed of insular, encapsulated components, controlled by a central executive. An alternative hypothesis suggests that cognitive control arises from the complex interaction among temporal scales of activity within the system. We examined the hand motions of preschool-age participants gathered during an executive-function task, card sorting, for evidence of multiplicative interact…
Spontaneous Interentity Coordination in a Dissipative Structure
Humans and other creatures display remarkable interorganism coordination. For ecological theorists, interorganism coordination poses a challenge because it appears to be an especially “representation-hungry” phenomenon (Clark, 1999 Clark, A. (1999). An embodied cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 345–351.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Ecological researchers have proposed that interorganism coordinati…
Collective Dissipative Structures, Force Flow Reciprocity, and the Foundations of Perception–Action Mutuality
Physical systems maintained far from equilibrium exhibit self-organization of structure and behavior. These dissipative structures can exhibit life-like qualities and activities, such as collective and coordinated behaviors. We review such collective behaviors in electrical and chemical dissipative structures. Electrical dissipative structures can functionally coordinate their behaviors to maximize the rate of entropy production. Coupled oscillat…
Gesture Networks: Introducing Dynamic Time Warping and Network Analysis for the Kinematic Study of Gesture Ensembles
We introduce applications of established methods in time-series and network analysis that we jointly apply here for the kinematic study of gesture ensembles. We define a gesture ensemble as the set of gestures produced during discourse by a single person or a group of persons. Here we are interested in how gestures kinematically relate to one another. We use a bivariate time-series analysis called dynamic time warping to assess how similar each g…
Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance: The role of musical structure and performance cues
To perform reliably and confidently from memory, musicians must able to recover from mistakes and memory failures. We describe how an experienced singer (the second author) recovered from mistakes and gaps in recall as she periodically recalled the score of a piece of vocal music that she had memorized for public performance, writing out the music six times over a five-year period following the performance. Five years after the performance, the s…
Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)