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Interpersonal pattern dynamics and adaptive behavior in multiagent neurobiological systems: conceptual model and

Pedro Passos1, Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids

  • 1Faculty of Human Kinetics, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. passos.p@gmail.com

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Adaptive behavior in team sports emerges from self-organization, like in rugby. Dynamical systems principles explain player actions and decisions as complex, emergent properties.

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Area of Science:

  • Ecological psychology
  • Dynamical systems theory
  • Sports science

Background:

  • Adaptive behavior in complex social systems is an emergent, self-organizing property.
  • Understanding decision-making and action dynamics in multiagent systems like team sports is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conceptualize and investigate constraints on decision and action dynamics in team sports.
  • To model control parameter and collective variable relations in attacker-defender dyads using rugby union data.

Main Methods:

  • Videogrammetry analysis of attacker-defender dyads in rugby union.
  • Investigated coadaptive interpersonal dynamics and agent interactions.

Main Results:

  • Observed agents adapting displacement velocity to create phase transitions and destabilize dyadic subsystems.
  • Agent interpersonal dynamics exhibited characteristics of chaotic attractors.
  • Rugby union dyadic systems were constrained into a low-dimensional attractor.

Conclusions:

  • Player decisions and actions in team sports are emergent, self-organizing properties.
  • These behaviors are governed by dynamical systems laws at the ecological scale.
  • The conceptual model of adaptive behavior needs generalization to other multiagent populations.