The dynamical systems approach to cognition : concepts and empirical paradigms based on self-organization, embodiment, and coordination dynamics /
The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
Publication Dates: | 2003. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ;
v. 10 |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5395#t=toc |
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The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major impact on behavioral and cognitive science. The book points out that there are two domains that follow naturally from the stance of embodiment: first, coordination dynamics is an established empirical paradigm that is best able to aid the approach; second, the obvious goal-directedness of intelligent action (i.e., intentionality) is nicely addressed in the framework of the dynamical synergetic approach. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi,330pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789812564399 (electronic bk.) |
CLC: | B842.1 |
Contents: | I. Embodiment. Intelligent behavior: a synergetic view / Hermann Haken -- Grounded in the world: developmental origins of the embodied mind / Esther Thelen -- Cognitive coordination dynamics / Scott Kelso -- II. Coordination dynamics. What is coordinated in bimanual coordination? / Franz Mechsner and Wolfgang Prinz -- Cognition in action: the interplay of attention and bimanual coordination dynamics / Jean Jacques Temprado -- A synergetic approach to describe the stability and variability of motor behavior / Kerstin Witte ... [et al.] -- The role of synchronization in perception-action / Tin-cheun Chan ... [et al.] -- A mean-field approach to self-organization in spatially extended perception-action and psychological systems / Till Frank and Peter Beek -- III. Intentionality. Self-organizing systems show apparent intentionality / Wolfgang Tschacher, Jean-Pierre Dauwalder, and Hermann Haken -- The embodiment of intentionality / Scott Jordan -- Cognitive science, representations and dynamical systems theory / Pim Haselager, Raoul Bongers, and Iris van Rooij -- Self-steered self-organisation / Fred Keijzer -- Brain dynamics: methodological issues and applications in psychiatric and neurologic diseases / Laurent Pezard -- SIRN (Synergetic Inter-Representation Networks), artifacts and Snow's two cultures / Juval Portugali -- Dynamical systems theory: application to pedagogy / Jane Abraham. |