Overview

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 behavioural 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.

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Author:   Wolfgang Tschacher (Univ Of Bern, Switzerland) ,  Jean-pierre Dauwalder (Univ De Lausanne, Switzerland)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 34.40cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789812386106

ISBN 10:   9812386106
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   16 October 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Intelligent Behavior - A Synergetic View (H Haken); Cognitive Coordination Dynamics (S Kelso); Grounded in the World: Developmental Origins of the Embodied Mind (Revised Reprint) (E Thelen); What is Coordinated in Bimanual Coordination? (F Mechsner & W Prinz); Cognition in Action: The Interplay of Attention and Bimanual Coordination Dynamics (J J Temprado et a.); A Synergetic Approach to Describe the Stability and Variability of Motor Behaviour (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); Efficiency Aspects of Self-Organizing Systems (W Tschacher et al.); The Embodiment of Intentionality (S Jordan); Cognitive Science, Representations and Dynamical Systems Theory (W F G Haselager); Self-Steered Self-Organization (F Keijzer); SIRN (Synergetic Inter-Representation Networks), Artifacts and Snow's Two Cultures (J Fortugali); Brain Dynamics: Methodological Issues and Applications in Psychiatic and Neurologic Diseases (L Fezard); Dynamical Systems Theory: Applications to Pedagogy (J L Abraham).

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