Nia Amazeen

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• Brink, K. J., Kim, S. K., Sommerfeld, J. H., Amazeen, P. G., Stergiou, N., & Likens, A. D. (2024). Pink Noise promotes sooner state transitions during bimanual coordination. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121(31). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400687121
• Nguyen, T., D., Magaldino, C., M., Landfair, J. T., Amazeen, P. G., & Amazeen, E. L.  (2024). From cognitive agents to cognitive systems: Theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments of van Gelder's (1998) "Dynamical Hypothesis". Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12725
• Patten, K. J., Greer, K., Likens, A. D., Amazeen, E. L., & Amazeen, P. G.  (2020). The trajectory of thought: Heavy-tailed distributions in memory foraging promote efficiency.  Memory and Cognition, 48(5), 772-787.   https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01015-7
• Demir, M., Likens, A. D. Cooke, N. J., Amazeen, P. G., & McNeese, N. J.  (2019).  Team coordination and effectiveness in human-autonomy teaming.  IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 49, 150-159.
• Likens, A. D., Amazeen, P. G., West, S. G., & Gibbons, C. T.  (2019). Statistical properties of multiscale regression analysis:  Simulation and application to human postural control.  Physica A:  Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 532, 121580.
• Amazeen, P. G.  (2018).  From physics to social interactions:  Scientific unification via dynamics.  Cognitive Systems Research, 52, 640-657.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.07.033 
• Fine, J. M., Likens, A. D., Amazeen, E. L., & Amazeen, P. G.  (2015). Emergent complexity matching in interpersonal coordination:  Local dynamics and global variability.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 41(3), 723-737.
• Likens, A. D., Fine, J. M., Amazeen, E. L., & Amazeen, P. G.  (2015). Experimental control of scaling behavior:  What is not fractal?  Experimental Brain Research, 233, 2813-2821.
• Hessler, E. E., & Amazeen, P. G.  (2014). Learning and transfer in motor-respiratory coordination.  Human Movement Science, 33, 321-342.
• Likens, A. D., Amazeen, P. G.,Stevens, R., Galloway, T., & Gorman, J. (2014). Neural signatures of team coordination are revealed by multifractal analysis.  Social Neuroscience, 9, 219-234.
• Gorman, J. C., Hessler, E. E., Amazeen, P. G., Cooke, N. J., & Shope, S. M.  (2012). Dynamical analysis in real time: Detecting perturbations to team communication.  Ergonomics, 55, 825-839.
• Gorman, J. C., Amazeen, P. G.,& Cooke, N. J.  (2010). Team coordination dynamics.  Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 14,265-289.
• Gorman, J. C., Cooke, N. J. & Amazeen, P. G.  (2010). Training adaptive teams.  Human Factors, 52, 295-307.
  • Winner of the HFES Jerome H.Ely Award for Best Paper in Human Factors.
• Butner, J., Amazeen, P. G., & Mulvey, G. M.  (2005).  Multilevel modeling of two cyclical processes: Extending differential structural equation modeling to nonlinear coupled systems.  Psychological Methods, 10, 159-177.
• Amazeen, P. G.  (2002).  Is dynamics the content of a generalized motor program for rhythmic interlimb coordination?  Journal of Motor Behavior, 34, 233-251.