27 Of Synchronization and Syncopation

The original quest to understand absolute and relative coordination that evolved into the burgeoning field of Coordination Dynamics (CD) came long before any connection to the complementary nature and the squiggle sense were discovered and appreciated. The original experiments explored the coordination of voluntary rhythmic movements of the two hands. Synchronization and syncopation are basic dynamic patterns of such coordinated movement. They’ve been the subject of hundreds of studies, resulting in many hypotheses and theories about how they're produced. A unique contribution of CD is that it established a fundamental and lawful connection between synchronization and syncopation as two basic modes of coordination we all have. This is a crucial insight: the law not only explains how the coordination of the interacting elements produces these two dynamic patterns, but how they're connected to one another!