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Human Balancing Tasks: Power Laws, Intermittency, and Lévy Flights

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  1. Laboratorio de Dinámica Estocástica, Centro de Física, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela

    Juan Luis Cabrera

  2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Hochschulring 18, 330 440, 28334, Bremen, Germany

    Felix Patzelt

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  1. Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Cabrera, J.L., Patzelt, F. (2015). Human Balancing Tasks: Power Laws, Intermittency, and Lévy Flights. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_502

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