Mathematical Analysis and Description of Continuous Human Behavior

Abstract

To record and analyze sequential (i.e. continuous) motor behavior in the human during performance of a task, a method is being devised whereby the relations of body units during spontaneous activity are measured using the angular displacement of each unit with respect to a reference body unit as a function of time. For any given sequence of behavior, the angular displacements are being reduced to linear differential equations. In addition, the sequences of behavior are being related to important physiological substrates such as brain function, cardiac output, muscle tension, respiration rate and volume, body temperature and the like.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 20, 1971
Accession Number
AD0734681

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  • Lawrence R. Pinneo

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  • SRI International

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  • Biomedical

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  • Animals
  • Biological Sciences
  • Body Temperature
  • Brain
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Human Behavior
  • Linear Differential Equations
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Military Research
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Physiology
  • Psychophysiology
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  • Biology

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