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AUTHOR
Casarrubea M
INTRODUCTION
Discovering hidden recurring patterns in observable behavioral processes is an important issue frequently faced by numerous advanced students and researchers across many research areas, such as, for example, psychology, biology, sports, robotics, media, finance, and medicine. As generally, the many powerful methods included in statistical software packages were not developed for this kind of analysis, discovering such patterns has proven a particularly difficult task, due to a lack of (a) adequate formalized models of the kinds of patterns to look for, (b) corresponding detection algorithms, and (c) their implementation in available software. The research described in this book is based on …
T-Patterns in the study of movement disorders
An intrinsic feature of behaviour orbits around its temporal dimension consisting of patterns in time: investigations on behaviour necessarily deal with sequences often impossible to be perceived by the human eye [Eibl-Eibesfeldt I. Ethology: the biology of behavior. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1970]. Thus, the study of behavioural sequencing in terms of higher order arrangements, how the sequences are structured and, importantly, their analysis in normal subjects and in subjects affected by specific movement/behavioural disorders may represent a stimulating but challenging task. By means of T-Pattern analysis (TPA), it is possible to study these hidden features of behaviour and, …