Explaining behavior: Bringing the brain back in

Skarda, Christine A.

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“…The fundamental character of behavior is adaptive interaction in the world (Churchland 1986;Skarda 1986). Feedback from the consequences of behavior modifies the system and projects it into a higher order of stability.…”

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The virtues of chaos

Garfinkel

1987

Behav Brain Sci

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The virtues of chaos

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1987

Behav Brain Sci

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“…In this paper, we aim to question this representational presupposition by investigating the potential of dynamical systems theory (DST) to model imagined actions. According to some (but not all) proponents of DST, a non-representational account of behavior is possible and in many cases more fruitful for understanding the underlying causal processes (Kelso, 1995;Keijzer, 2001;Port & Van Gelder, 1995;Skarda, 1986;Skarda & Freeman, 1987;Thelen & Smith, 1994;. Within DST, the behavior of a system is analyzed as an emergent property of the interactions between its subsystems.…”

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A non-representational approach to imagined action

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This study addresses the dynamical nature of a "representation-hungry" cognitive task involving an imagined action. In our experiment, participants were handed rods that systematically increased or decreased in length on subsequent trials. Participants were asked to judge whether or not they thought they could reach for a distant object with the hand-held rod. The results are in agreement with a dynamical model, extended from Tuller, Case, Ding, and Kelso (1994). The dynamical effects observed in this study suggest that predictive judgments regarding the possibility or impossibility of a certain action can be understood in terms of dynamically evolving basins of attraction instead of as depending on representational structures.

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Perception, Connectionism, and Cognitive Science

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Explaining behavior: Bringing the brain back in

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The virtues of chaos

The virtues of chaos

A non-representational approach to imagined action

Perception, Connectionism, and Cognitive Science

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