title: Synchronisation and Differentiation: Two Stages of Coordinative Structure
creator: Yamamoto, Tomoyuki
creator: Fujinami, Tsutomu
subject: Robotics
subject: Animal Behavior
description: While motor skill acquisition process is regarded as development of coordination, typically regarded as synchronisation among joint movements, we found another phenomenon which we call differentiation as a consequence of synchronisation. The synchronised movement established is decomposed into several sections or modulated to be executed on different timings without breaking the coordination among them, resulting in the gain of efficiency or flexibility. In the acquisition of skills, the coordinative structure thus goes through two stages: synchronisation and differentiation. We verify in this paper our observation through our experiments and dynamical analysis of the kneading of ceramic art and playing the shaker in samba.
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
contributor: Berthouze, Luc
contributor: Kozima, Hideki
contributor: Prince, Christopher G.
contributor: Sandini, Giulio
contributor: Stojanov, Georgi
contributor: Metta, Giorgio
contributor: Balkenius, Christian
date: 2004
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4149/1/yamamoto.pdf
identifier:   Yamamoto, Tomoyuki and Fujinami, Tsutomu  (2004) Synchronisation and Differentiation: Two Stages of Coordinative Structure.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4149/