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Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 2(7), pp. 231 - 240
DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2014.020704
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Multistable Perception in Schizophrenia: A Model-based Analysis via Coarse-grained Order Parameter Dynamics and a Comment on the 4th Law
T. D. Frank 1,2,*
1 Department of Psychology, Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action
2 University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, 06269, Connecticut, United States
ABSTRACT
The synergetic computer that has originally been developed as an algorithm for pattern recognition has also been used in the life sciences as a model for various self-organizing perceptual processes. Coarse-graining of the order parameter equations of the synergetic computer is discussed for sets of to-be-perceived patterns that vary in the degree to which they can be distinguished from each other. Coarse-gaining is exploited to conduct a model-based analysis on literature data of multistable perception under schizophrenia as tested in motion-induced blindness (MIB) experiments. The analysis not only supports earlier suggestions that schizophrenia reduces the occurrence frequency of the MIB effect but also suggests that the perceptual system of schizophrenia patients is characterized by a greater degree of asymmetry.
KEYWORDS
Schizophrenia, Motion-induced Blindness, Self-organization, Order Parameter Dynamics, Dynamical Systems Modeling
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] T. D. Frank , "Multistable Perception in Schizophrenia: A Model-based Analysis via Coarse-grained Order Parameter Dynamics and a Comment on the 4th Law," Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 231 - 240, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2014.020704.
(b). APA Format:
T. D. Frank (2014). Multistable Perception in Schizophrenia: A Model-based Analysis via Coarse-grained Order Parameter Dynamics and a Comment on the 4th Law. Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION), 2(7), 231 - 240. DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2014.020704.