Complexity Science in Human Change : : Research, Models, Clinical Applications / / by Franco Orsucci, Wolfgang Tschacher (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Orsucci, Franco,; Tschacher, Wolfgang,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)

This reprint encompasses fourteen contributions that offer avenues towards a better understanding of complex systems in human behavior. The phenomena studied here are generally pattern formation processes that originate in social interaction and psychotherapy. Several accounts are also given of the coordination in body movements and in physiological, neuronal and linguistic processes. A common denominator of such pattern formation is that complexity and entropy of the respective systems become reduced spontaneously, which is the hallmark of self-organization. The various methodological approaches of how to model such processes are presented in some detail. Results from the various methods are systematically compared and discussed. Among these approaches are algorithms for the quantification of synchrony by cross-correlational statistics, surrogate control procedures, recurrence mapping and network models. This volume offers an informative and sophisticated resource for scholars of human change, and as well for students at advanced levels, from graduate to post-doctoral. The reprint is multidisciplinary in nature, binding together the fields of medicine, psychology, physics, and neuroscience.

Table of Contents

About the Editors vii -- Complexity Science in Human Change: Research, Models, Clinical Applications 1 -- Human Synchronization Maps-The Hybrid Consciousness of the Embodied Mind 7 -- Four Methods to Distinguish between Fractal Dimensions in Time Series through Recurrence Quantification Analysis 15 -- Cross-Correlation- and Entropy-Based Measures of Movement Synchrony: Non-Convergence of Measures Leads to Different Associations with Depressive Symptoms 29 -- Catastrophe Theory Applied to Neuropsychological Data: Nonlinear Effects of Depression on Financial Capacity in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia 51 -- Dynamics of Remote Communication: Movement Coordination inVideo-Mediated and Face-to-Face Conversations 65 -- Changes in the Complexity of Limb Movements during the First Year of Life across Different Tasks 83 -- A Dynamical Autocatalytic Network Model of Therapeutic Change 97 -- Studying Physiological Synchrony in Couple Therapy through Partial Directed Coherence: Associations with the Therapeutic Alliance and Meaning Construction 117 -- Recurrence-Based Synchronization Analysis of Weakly Coupled Bursting Neurons under External ELF Fields 135 -- Alternate Entropy Computations by Applying Recurrence Matrix Masking 153 -- Affect-Logic, Embodiment, Synergetics, and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia 171 -- Clients' Emotional Experiences Tied to Therapist-Led (but Not Client-Led) Physiological Synchrony during Imagery Rescripting 185 -- Affective Saturation Index: A Lexical Measure of Affect 195 -- Beyond Dyadic Coupling: The Method of Multivariate Surrogate Synchrony (mv-SUSY) 221.