Some critical aspects of fractality research

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-158

  Stadnitski, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Arfima; Cognitive performance; Fractal; Long memory; Response time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84865369199     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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