TY - BOOK ID - 17874342 TI - Dynamic patterns PY - 1995 SN - 0262611317 0262112000 9780262611312 9780262112000 0262276968 0585326304 9780585326306 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - 577.22 KW - 577.22 Structural organization of life. Assembly and self-organization of biological structures KW - Structural organization of life. Assembly and self-organization of biological structures KW - Systèmes auto-organisés. KW - Systèmes auto-organisés KW - #WSCH:AAS2 KW - Neuropsychology KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Learning systems (Automatic control) KW - Self-optimizing systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Intellect KW - Learning ability KW - Synergetics KW - Neurophysiology KW - Psychophysiology KW - Psychiatry KW - Physiology of nerves and sense organs KW - Social psychology KW - Neuropsychology. KW - Self-organizing systems. KW - Neuropsychologie KW - Neuropsychologie. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17874342 AB - foreword by Hermann Haken For the past twenty years Scott Kelso's research has focused on extending the physical concepts of self- organization and the mathematical tools of nonlinear dynamics to understand how human beings (and human brains) perceive, intend, learn, control, and coordinate complex behaviors. In this book Kelso proposes a new, general framework within which to connect brain, mind, and behavior.Kelso's prescription for mental life breaks dramatically with the classical computational approach that is still the operative framework for many newer psychological and neurophysiological studies. His core thesis is that the creation and evolution of patterned behavior at all levels—from neurons to mind—is governed by the generic processes of self-organization. Both human brain and behavior are shown to exhibit features of pattern-forming dynamical systems, including multistability, abrupt phase transitions, crises, and intermittency.Dynamic Patterns brings together different aspects of this approach to the study of human behavior, using simple experimental examples and illustrations to convey essential concepts, strategies, and methods, with a minimum of mathematics.Kelso begins with a general account of dynamic pattern formation. He then takes up behavior, focusing initially on identifying pattern-forming instabilities in human sensorimotor coordination. Moving back and forth between theory and experiment, he establishes the notion that the same pattern-forming mechanisms apply regardless of the component parts involved (parts of the body, parts of the nervous system, parts of society) and the medium through which the parts are coupled. Finally, employing the latest techniques to observe spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity, Kelso shows that the human brain is fundamentally a pattern forming dynamical system, poised on the brink of instability. Self-organization thus underlies the cooperative action of neurons that produces human behavior in all its forms. ER -