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The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition: Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics (Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science)

By Jean-Pierre Dauwalder , Wolfgang Tschacher

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2003
ISBN
9812386106, 9789812386106
LCC
BF311 .D96 2003
Open Library ID
OL22576204M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
8 MB (8294444 bytes)
Pages
345\345
Topic
Education
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

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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