Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends

✍ Scribed by M. T. Turvey (auth.), Dr. Viktor K. Jirsa, Prof. J. A. Scott Kelso (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Coordination represents one of the most striking, most taken for granted, but least understood features of living things. Recently a new foundation for understanding coordination has emerged called Coordination Dynamics. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Impredicativity, Dynamics, and the Perception-Action Divide....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages N2-N2
A Dynamical Approach to the Interplay of Attention and Bimanual Coordination....Pages 21-39
Intention in Bimanual Coordination Performance and Learning....Pages 41-56
Searching for (Dynamic) Principles of Learning....Pages 57-89
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Using Visual Information in Functional Stabilization: Pole-Balancing Example....Pages 91-101
Postural Coordination Dynamics in Standing Humans....Pages 103-121
Noise Associated with the Process of Fusing Multisensory Information....Pages 123-139
Front Matter....Pages N4-N4
Governing Coordination. Why do Muscles Matter?....Pages 141-154
Guiding Movements without Redundancy Problems....Pages 155-176
A Perceptual-Cognitive Approach to Bimanual Coordination....Pages 177-195
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
Complex Neural Dynamics....Pages 197-215
Oscillations and Synchrony in Cognition....Pages 217-242
Integration and Segregation of Perceptual and Motor Behavior....Pages 243-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-272

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences, general;Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering;Physiological, Cellular and M