Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts

Participation in interpersonal competitions, such as fencing or Japanese martial arts, requires players to make instantaneous decisions and execute appropriate motor behaviors in response to various situations. Such actions can be understood as complex phenomena emerging from simple principles. We e...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Yamamoto, Yuji, Yokoyama, Keiko, Okumura, Motoki, Kijima, Akifumi, Kadota, Koji, Gohara, Kazutoshi
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762806/

id	pubmed-3762806
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	pubmed-37628062013-09-10 Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts Yamamoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Keiko Okumura, Motoki Kijima, Akifumi Kadota, Koji Gohara, Kazutoshi Research Article Participation in interpersonal competitions, such as fencing or Japanese martial arts, requires players to make instantaneous decisions and execute appropriate motor behaviors in response to various situations. Such actions can be understood as complex phenomena emerging from simple principles. We examined the intentional switching dynamics associated with continuous movement during interpersonal competition in terms of their emergence from a simple syntax. Linear functions on return maps identified two attractors as well as the transitions between them. The effects of skill differences were evident in the second- and third-order state-transition diagrams for these two attractors. Our results suggest that abrupt switching between attractors is related to the diverse continuous movements resulting from quick responses to sudden changes in the environment. This abrupt-switching-quick-response behavior is characterized by a joint action syntax. The resulting hybrid dynamical system is composed of a higher module with discrete dynamics and a lower module with continuous dynamics. Our results suggest that intelligent human behavior and robust autonomy in real-life scenarios are based on this hybrid dynamical system, which connects interpersonal coordination and competition. Public Library of Science 2013-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3762806/ /pubmed/24023740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072436 Text en © 2013 Yamamoto et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
repository_type	Open Access Journal
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	US National Center for Biotechnology Information
building	NCBI PubMed
collection	Online Access
language	English
format	Online
author	Yamamoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Keiko Okumura, Motoki Kijima, Akifumi Kadota, Koji Gohara, Kazutoshi
spellingShingle	Yamamoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Keiko Okumura, Motoki Kijima, Akifumi Kadota, Koji Gohara, Kazutoshi Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts
author_facet	Yamamoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Keiko Okumura, Motoki Kijima, Akifumi Kadota, Koji Gohara, Kazutoshi
author_sort	Yamamoto, Yuji
title	Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts
title_short	Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts
title_full	Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts
title_fullStr	Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts
title_full_unstemmed	Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts
title_sort	joint action syntax in japanese martial arts
description	Participation in interpersonal competitions, such as fencing or Japanese martial arts, requires players to make instantaneous decisions and execute appropriate motor behaviors in response to various situations. Such actions can be understood as complex phenomena emerging from simple principles. We examined the intentional switching dynamics associated with continuous movement during interpersonal competition in terms of their emergence from a simple syntax. Linear functions on return maps identified two attractors as well as the transitions between them. The effects of skill differences were evident in the second- and third-order state-transition diagrams for these two attractors. Our results suggest that abrupt switching between attractors is related to the diverse continuous movements resulting from quick responses to sudden changes in the environment. This abrupt-switching-quick-response behavior is characterized by a joint action syntax. The resulting hybrid dynamical system is composed of a higher module with discrete dynamics and a lower module with continuous dynamics. Our results suggest that intelligent human behavior and robust autonomy in real-life scenarios are based on this hybrid dynamical system, which connects interpersonal coordination and competition.
publisher	Public Library of Science
publishDate	2013
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762806/
_version_	1612008275951222784

Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts

Similar Items