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Methods for identifying and characterising periodicity, quasi-periodicity and chaos in experimental time series are well developed. Many experimental measures are samples from spatially extended processes, and measures for quantifying such spatial and spatio-temporal fields are, in contrast, poorly developed. A preliminary proposal is to mimic visual analysis of spatio-temporal patterns by measures that represent computations performed in the visual system.
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Holden, A.V., Brindley, J., Everson, R.M. (1988). Measures of Spatio-Temporal Irregularity. In: Wolff, W., Soeder, CJ., Drepper, F.R. (eds) Ecodynamics. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73953-8_30
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