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Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science - Vol. 10

THE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COGNITION
Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics

edited by Wolfgang Tschacher (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Jean-Pierre Dauwalder (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Table of Contents (58k)
Foreward (70k)
Introduction (194k)

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.


Contents:

  • Intelligent Behavior: A Synergetic View (H Haken)
  • Grounded in the World: Developmental Origins of the Embodied Mind (E Thelen)
  • Cognitive Coordination Dynamics (S Kelso)
  • What is Coordinated in Bimanual Coordination? (F Mechsner & W Prinz)
  • Cognition in Action: The Interplay of Attention and Bimanual Coordination Dynamics (J J Temprado)
  • A Synergetic Approach to Describe the Stability and Variability of Motor Behavior (K Witte et al.)
  • The Role of Synchronization in Perception-Action (T-C Chan et al.)
  • A Mean-Field Approach to Self-Organization in Spatially Extended Perception-Action and Psychological Systems (T Frank & P J Beek)
  • Self-Organizing Systems Show Apparent Intentionality (W Tschacher et al.)
  • The Embodiment of Intentionality (S Jordan)
  • Cognitive Science, Representations and Dynamical Systems Theory (P Haselager)
  • Self-Steered Self-Organization (F Keijzer)
  • Brain Dynamics: Methodological Issues and Applications in Psychiatic and Neurologic Diseases (L Fezard)
  • SIRN (Synergetic Inter-Representation Networks), Artifacts and Snow's Two Cultures (J Portugali)
  • Dynamical Systems Theory: Application to Pedagogy (J Abraham)


Readership: Psychologists, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, biologists and philosophers.

344pp Pub. date: Oct 2003
ISBN 978-981-238-610-6
981-238-610-6
US$76 / £56


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