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The Pervasiveness of 1/f Scaling in Speech Reflects the Metastable Basis of Cognition
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Human neural and behavioral activities have been reported to exhibit fractal dynamics known as 1/f noise, which is more aptly named 1/f scaling. Some argue that 1/f scaling is a general and pervasive property of the dynamical substrate from which cognitive functions are formed. Others argue that it is an idiosyncratic property of domain-specific processes. An experiment was conducted to investigate whether 1/f scaling pervades the intrinsic fluctuations of a spoken word. Ten participants each repeated the word bucket over 1,000 times, and fluctuations in acoustic measurements across repetitions generally followed the 1/f scaling relation, including numerous parallel yet distinct series of 1/f fluctuations. On the basis of work showing that 1/f scaling is a universal earmark of metastability, it is proposed that the observed pervasiveness of 1/f fluctuations in speech reflects the fact that cognitive functions are formed as metastable patterns of activity in brain, body, and environment.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kello, C. T., Anderson, G. G., Holden, J. G., & Van Orden, G. C.
- Affiliations
- California State University, Northridge (US)
- George Mason University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kello, Christopher T.
- Venue
- Cognitive Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-10
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1217-1231
- ISSN
- 0364-0213 (ISSN-L)
- 1551-6709
- OpenAlex
- W2157067792
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 5.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cognitive Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0239595)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Keywords
- 1/f scaling, 1/f noise, fractal dynamics, metastability, speech, acoustic fluctuations, cognitive dynamics, brain dynamics, embodied cognition
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