Coordination Dynamics Issues And Trends

Author : Viktor K. Jirsa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540396764
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends written by Viktor K. Jirsa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scientists from all over the world who have defined and developed the field of Coordination Dynamics. Grounded in the concepts of self-organization and the tools of nonlinear dynamics, appropriately extended to handle informational aspects of living things, Coordination Dynamics aims to understand the coordinated functioning of a variety of different systems at multiple levels of description. The book addresses the themes of Coordination Dynamics and Dynamic Patterns in the context of the following topics: Coordination of Brain and Behavior, Perception-Action Coupling, Control, Posture, Learning, Intention, Attention, and Cognition.

Author : Armin Fuchs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540744797
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coordination: Neural, Behavioral and Social Dynamics written by Armin Fuchs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most striking features of Coordination Dynamics is its interdisciplinary character. The problems we are trying to solve in this field range from behavioral phenomena of interlimb coordination and coordination between stimuli and movements (perception-action tasks) through neural activation patterns that can be observed during these tasks to clinical applications and social behavior. It is not surprising that close collaboration among scientists from different fields as psychology, kinesiology, neurology and even physics are imperative to deal with the enormous difficulties we are facing when we try to understand a system as complex as the human brain. The chapters in this volume are not simply write-ups of the lectures given by the experts at the meeting but are written in a way that they give sufficient introductory information to be comprehensible and useful for all interested scientists and students.

Author : Michael J. Richardson
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889454207
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Joint-Action, Social Coordination and Multi-Agent Activity written by Michael J. Richardson and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Hauptmann
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064507252
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Architecture written by Deborah Hauptmann and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noo-politics is most broadly understood as a power exerted over the life of the mind, reconfiguring perception, memory and attention. This volume unites specialists in political and aesthetic philosophy, neuroscience, sociology and architecture, and presents their ideas for re-thinking the city in terms of neurobiology and Noo-politics. The book examines the relationship between information and communication, calling for a new logic of representation, and shows how architecture can merge with urban systems and processes to create new forms of network that empower the imagination and change our cultural landscape.

Author : Christoph von der Malsburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262014718
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Coordination in the Brain written by Christoph von der Malsburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nervous systems do not live by the rate code alone. The ceaseless activities of groups of neurons are choregraphed into waves, oscillations, synchronized rhythms, and transient coalitions; it is these that underlie behavior, memory, and conscious perception. This exuberant manifesto masterfully summarizes and reflects upon the relevant evidence of these patterns from all manner of brains, small and large." --

Author : Raoul Huys
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642162614
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behavior written by Raoul Huys and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans engage in a seemingly endless variety of different behaviors, of which some are found across species, while others are conceived of as typically human. Most generally, behavior comes about through the interplay of various constraints – informational, mechanical, neural, metabolic, and so on – operating at multiple scales in space and time. Over the years, consensus has grown in the research community that, rather than investigating behavior only from bottom up, it may be also well understood in terms of concepts and laws on the phenomenological level. Such top down approach is rooted in theories of synergetics and self-organization using tools from nonlinear dynamics. The present compendium brings together scientists from all over the world that have contributed to the development of their respective fields departing from this background. It provides an introduction to deterministic as well as stochastic dynamical systems and contains applications to motor control and coordination, visual perception and illusion, as well as auditory perception in the context of speech and music.

Author : Dietmar Plenz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527651020
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criticality in Neural Systems written by Dietmar Plenz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurowissenschaftler suchen nach Antworten auf die Fragen, wie wir lernen und Information speichern, welche Prozesse im Gehirn verantwortlich sind und in welchem Zeitrahmen diese ablaufen. Die Konzepte, die aus der Physik kommen und weiterentwickelt werden, können in Medizin und Soziologie, aber auch in Robotik und Bildanalyse Anwendung finden. Zentrales Thema dieses Buches sind die sogenannten kritischen Phänomene im Gehirn. Diese werden mithilfe mathematischer und physikalischer Modelle beschrieben, mit denen man auch Erdbeben, Waldbrände oder die Ausbreitung von Epidemien modellieren kann. Neuere Erkenntnisse haben ergeben, dass diese selbstgeordneten Instabilitäten auch im Nervensystem auftreten. Dieses Referenzwerk stellt theoretische und experimentelle Befunde internationaler Gehirnforschung vor zeichnet die Perspektiven dieses neuen Forschungsfeldes auf.

Author : Leonid I. Perlovsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540732675
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness written by Leonid I. Perlovsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental evidence in humans and other mammalians indicates that complex neurodynamics is crucial for the emergence of higher-level intelligence. Dynamical neural systems with encoding in limit cycle and non-convergent attractors have gained increasing popularity in the past decade. The role of synchronization, desynchronization, and intermittent synchronization on cognition has been studied extensively by various authors, in particular by authors contributing to the present volume. This book addresses dynamical aspects of brain functions and cognition.

Author : Dylan D. Schmorrow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642218520
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the Future of Adaptive Systems written by Dylan D. Schmorrow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, FAC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011, within the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, with 11 other thematically similar conferences. The 75 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical parts on theories, models, and technologies for augmented cognition; neuroscience and brain monitoring; augmented cognition, social computing, and collaboration; augmented cognition for learning; augmented cognition and interaction; and augmented cognition in complex environments.

Author : Nancey Murphy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642032044
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will written by Nancey Murphy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuine free will? The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of remarkable discoveries on the topic being made by neuroscientists at the present time, on the one hand, and its crucial importance for the way we view ourselves as human beings, on the other. A key tool in understanding how free will may arise in this context is the idea of downward causation in complex systems, happening coterminously with bottom up causation, to form an integral whole. Top-down causation is usually neglected, and is therefore emphasized in the other part of the book’s title. The concept is explored in depth, as are the ethical and legal implications of our understanding of free will. This book arises out of a workshop held in California in April of 2007, which was chaired by Dr. Christof Koch. It was unusual in terms of the breadth of people involved: they included physicists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, and theologians. This enabled the meeting, and hence the resulting book, to attain a rather broader perspective on the issue than is often attained at academic symposia. The book includes contributions by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, George F. R. Ellis , Christopher D. Frith, Mark Hallett, David Hodgson, Owen D. Jones, Alicia Juarrero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Christof Koch, Hans Küng, Hakwan C. Lau, Dean Mobbs, Nancey Murphy, William Newsome, Timothy O’Connor, Sean A.. Spence, and Evan Thompson.