A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action /
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| Author / Creator: | Thelen, Esther. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994. |
| Description: | xxiii, 376 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1682642 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Nature of Development: A Dynamic Approach
- 1. Lessons from Learning to Walk
- Learning to Walk: The Views from Above
- Deficiencies of Single-Cause Explanations
- Central Pattern Generators and Locomotion
- Learning to Walk: A Confrontation with More Data
- Deconstructing Developmental Stages
- Locomotor Development in the Bullfrog
- Locomotor Development in the Chick
- Locomotor Development in the Cat
- Note
- 2. The Crisis in Cognitive Development
- Piaget: The View from Above
- The View from Below: Transitive Inference Making
- Competence versus Performance
- Nativism
- What Is Continuity?
- What Does Innate Mean?
- Modularity
- Human Information Processing
- Connectionism
- Teleology: Beyond the End-state in Developmental Theory
- Conclusion
- 3. Dynamic Systems: Exploring Paradigms for Change
- The Behavior of Dynamic Systems: An Overview
- Principles of Dynamic Systems
- Complexity and Systems Far from Thermal Equilibrium
- Self-organizing Systems
- Dynamic Stability and Attractors
- Phase Shifts: How Dynamic Systems Change States
- Fluctuations and Transitions: Unpacking Processes of Change
- The Importance of Time Scale Relations
- A Note on "Noise"
- A Further Note on Stability
- Summary
- Note
- 4. Dynamic Principles of Development: Reinterpreting Learning to Walk
- Overview
- A Note on Time Scales of Emergent Action
- Dynamic Principles of Action
- The Contributions of Bernstein
- Energetic Aspects of Movement
- Self-organization in Real Time: Spontaneous Infant Kicking
- Moving Between Time Scales: From Action to Development
- Development as Evolving and Dissolving Attractors
- A New Role for Variability in Development
- Ontogenetic Changes in Infant Leg Movements
- The Disappearance of Newborn Stepping
- Coordination and Control of Infant Kicking: Dynamic Changes
- Entraining the Intrinsic Dynamics to the Environment: Treadmill-elicitedStepping in Infants
- The Development of Treadmill Stepping: Mapping the Dynamics of Change
- The Role of the Individual in a Dynamic Systems Approach
- Operationalizing Dynamic Principles to Understand the Ontogeny ofTreadmill Stepping
- Identifying the Collective Variable of Interest
- Characterizing the Behavioral Attractor States
- Describing the Dynamic Trajectory of the Collective Variable
- Identifying Points of Transition
- Exploiting the Instabilities at Transitions to Identify Potential ControlParameters
- Manipulating the Putative Control Parameters to Experimentally Generate Phase Transitions
- Integrating Dynamic Accounts at Many Levels of Analysis
- A Dynamic Account of Learning to Walk: The Ontogenetic Landscape
- Part II. Seeking Mechanisms of Change
- 5. Dynamics of Neural Organization and Development
- Explanation and Mechanism
- Dynamic Organization of the Brain
- Dynamics of Perception: Olfaction in the Rabbit
- Dynamics of Movement: Neural Control of Reaching
- Dynamics of Change: Experience-driven Plasticity in the Adult Brain
- Time-locked Dynamic Processes in the Visual Cortex
- The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
- Perceptual Categorization and the Origins of Behavior
- Development by Selection
- The Anatomical Bases and Functions of Neural Diversity
- Variability in the Structure of the Nervous System
- The Creation of Diversity in Neuroembryology
- Development of the Primary Repertoire
- Dynamic Processes in the Early Embryo
- The Role of the Cell Surface in Morphogenesis
- Cellular Processes of Neural Development
- The Relation between Neurogenesis, Mapping, and Behavior: Moving toPerception and Action
- Note
- 6. Categories and Dynamic Knowledge
- Philosophy versus Biology
- Philosophical Categories
- Biological Categories
- Categories that Teach Themselves--A Computer Model
- Developing Definitions of Objects
- The Importance of Motion
- A Dynamic Systems Account
- Cognitive Momentum
- What Is a Category?
- Development as the Dynamic Selection of Categories
- 7. The Dynamics of Selection in Human Infants
- The Unity of Perception
- Intermodal Integration in Infants
- Movement as Perception: The Critical Role of Movement in Development
- The Central Role of Movement in the Development of Perception andCognition
- Self-produced Locomotion
- Other Motor Skills as Control Parameters
- Development in the Absence of a Perceptual Modality
- Dynamic Memory: From Learning to Development
- Experimental Studies of Infant Learning and Memory
- Developmental Changes in Memory
- Note
- Part III. Dynamics and the Origins of Knowledge
- 8. The Context-Specific Origin of Knowledge
- Global Structure-Local Variability: The Integration of Time Scales
- Learning About Slopes
- Knowing What Is Possible
- Possible and Impossible Events
- Knowing Carts Can't Go Through Boxes
- Developing Multiple Attractors
- Jumping Between Global Structures: Novel Word Interpretations
- Context and Competence
- 9. Knowledge from Action: Exploration and Selection in Learning to Reach
- Learning to Reach: The Nature of the Task
- Learning to Reach: A Dynamic Approach
- The Transition to Reaching
- Adult Reaching
- Gabriel: From Flapping to Reaching
- Hannah: Solving a Gravity Problem
- Reaching Onset: The Discovery of a New Form
- Matching Intention and Intrinsic Dynamics
- Action as an Emergent Category
- Nathan: Exploration and Selection over the First Year
- Knowledge from Action and Action from Knowledge
- 10. Real Time, Developmental Time, and Knowing: Explaining the A-Not-B Error
- The A-Not-B Error
- Context Effects
- The Data to Be Explained
- A Systems Account
- Explaining the Context Dependencies in Eight-month-old Performances
- The What System--Perceiving the Static Properties of Objects
- The Looking System
- The Reaching System
- Trajectories--Eight-month-olds, Standard Condition, No Delay
- Explanation of Eight-month-olds' Behavior in the Standard Task
- Eight-month-olds and Distinctive Containers
- Eight-month-olds and Multiple Hiding Locations
- Evaluation of the Account of Eight-month-old Infants' Search Behavior
- Development: Putting Real Time and Developmental Time Together
- Maturation or Development?
- What Is Knowing?
- 11. Hard Problems: Toward a Dynamic Cognition
- Motivation: Where Does It All Come from?
- Rethinking Motivation
- Motivation and the Dynamic Landscape
- Toward an Affective Cognition
- Kurt Lewin Rediscovered
- The Origins of an Embodied Cognition
- A Developmental Account of Force Embodiment
- Toward a Social Embodiment of Knowledge
- Talking and Perceiving: An Interactive Cognition
- Symbolic Thought in a Dynamic Cognition
- Paradigm Shifts
- Epilogue
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index