The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

by Tschacher, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9789812386106
• ISBN10: 9812386106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Intelligent Behavior: A Synergetic View	p. 3
Grounded in the World: Developmental Origins of the Embodied Mind	p. 17
Cognitive Coordination Dynamics	p. 45
What is Coordinated in Bimanual Coordination?	p. 71
Cognition in Action: The Interplay of Attention and Bimanual Coordination Dynamics	p. 93
A Synergetic Approach to Describe the Stability and Variability of Motor Behavior	p. 133
The Role of Synchronization in Perception-Action	p. 145
A Mean-Field Approach to Self-Organization in Spatially Extended Perception-Action and Psychological Systems	p. 159
Self-Organizing Systems Show Apparent Intentionality	p. 183
The Embodiment of Intentionality	p. 201
Cognitive Science, Representations and Dynamical Systems Theory	p. 229
Self-Steered Self-Organisation	p. 243
Brain Dynamics: Methodological Issues and Applications in Psychiatric and Neurologic Diseases	p. 261
SIRN (Synergetic Inter-Representation Networks), Artifacts and Snow's Two Cultures	p. 277
Dynamical Systems Theory: Application to Pedagogy	p. 295
List of Contributors	p. 309
Author Index	p. 311
Subject Index	p. 323
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