[PDF] Dynamical Cognitive Science eBook

Author : Lawrence M. Ward
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262232173

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An introduction to the application of dynamical systems science to the cognitive sciences. Dynamical Cognitive Science makes available to the cognitive science community the analytical tools and techniques of dynamical systems science, adding the variables of change and time to the study of human cognition. The unifying theme is that human behavior is an "unfolding in time" whose study should be augmented by the application of time-sensitive tools from disciplines such as physics, mathematics, and economics, where change over time is of central importance. The book provides a fast-paced, comprehensive introduction to the application of dynamical systems science to the cognitive sciences. Topics include linear and nonlinear time series analysis, chaos theory, complexity theory, relaxation oscillators, and metatheoretical issues of modeling and theory building. Tools and techniques are discussed in the context of their application to basic cognitive science problems, including perception, memory, psychophysics, judgment and decision making, and consciousness. The final chapter summarizes the contemporary study of consciousness and suggests how dynamical approaches to cognitive science can help to advance our understanding of this central concept.

Author : Ralf Engbert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030672999

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The development of cognitive models is a key step in the challenging research program to advance our understanding of human cognition and behavior. Dynamical models represent a general and flexible approach to cognitive modeling. This introduction focuses on applications of stochastic processes and dynamical systems to model cognition. The dynamical approach is particularly useful to emphasize the strong link between experimental research (and its paradigms), data analysis, and mathematical models including their computer implementation for numerical simulation. Most of specific examples are from the domain of eye movement research, with concepts being applicable to a broad range of problems in cognitive modeling. The textbook aims at the graduate and/or advanced undergraduate level for students in Cognitive Science and related disciplines such as Psychology and Computer Science. Joint introduction of the theory of cognitive processes and mathematical models, their underlying mathematical concepts, numerical simulation, and analysis; The focus on eye movements provide a theoretically coherent, but very general application area; Computer code in R Programming Language for Statistical Computing is available for all examples, figures, and solutions to exercises.

Author : Gregor Schöner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199300569

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"This book describes a new theoretical approach--Dynamic Field Theory (DFT)--that explains how people think and act"--

Author : G. Kampis
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0080912397

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The theme of this book is the self-generation of information by the self-modification of systems. The author explains why biological and cognitive processes exhibit identity changes in the mathematical and logical sense. This concept is the basis of a new organizational principle which utilizes shifts of the internal semantic relations in systems. There are mathematical discussions of various classes of systems (Turing machines, input-output systems, synergetic systems, non-linear dynamics etc), which are contrasted with the author's new principle. The most important implications of this include a new conception on the nature of information and which also provides a new and coherent conceptual view of a wide class of natural systems. This book merits the attention of all philosophers and scientists concerned with the way we create reality in our mathematical representations of the world and the connection those representations have with the way things really are.

Author : Wolfgang Tschacher
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 981256439X

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The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is usedto advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is arguedthat recent developments in cognitive science towards an account ofembodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theoryand dynamics, have a major impact on behavioral and cognitivescience.

Author : Marco Giunti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195090098

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Advancing the dynamical approach as the methodological frame best equipped to guide inquiry in the field's two main research programs - the symbolic and connectionist approaches - Marco Giunti engages a host of questions crucial not only to the science of cognition, but also to computation theory, dynamical systems theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Author : Robert F. Port
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262161503

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The first comprehensive presentation of the dynamical approach to cognition. It contains a representative sampling of original, current research on topics such as perception, motor control, speech and language, decision making, and development.

Author : Wolfgang Tschacher
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9814485004

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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.

Author : Andrei Y. Khrennikov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9401704791

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In this book we develop various mathematical models of information dynamics, I -dynamics (including the process of thinking), based on methods of classical and quantum physics. The main aim of our investigations is to describe mathematically the phenomenon of consciousness. We would like to realize a kind of Newton-Descartes program (corrected by the lessons of statistical and quantum mechanics) for information processes. Starting from the ideas of Newton and Descartes, in physics there was developed an adequate description of the dynamics of material systems. We would like to develop an analogous mathematical formalism for information and, in particular, mental processes. At the beginning of the 21st century it is clear that it would be impossible to create a deterministic model for general information processes. A deterministic model has to be completed by a corresponding statistical model of information flows and, in particular, flows of minds. It might be that such an information statistical model should have a quantum-like structure.

Author : Wolfgang Tschacher
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9812386106

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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.