Fractal Modeling of Human Psychomotor Skills Acquisition Process

Existing research on human skills acquisition studies has shown that learning follows a non-linear pattern, but the exact form remains unknown due to the limitation of traditional experimental methods and lack of systematic modeling of tasks. We applied a non-linear fractal analysis on the time series data produced by human subjects on target-tracking motor learning tasks. Tracking of a non-fractal sinusoid-cosinusoid signal was used as the platform. Our preliminary results suggest that fractal models may prove effective in investigating details of the human learning process.

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