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Incorporating coordination dynamics into an evolutionarily grounded science of intentional change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Viviane Kostrubiec  and
J. A. Scott Kelso
Viviane Kostrubiec
Affiliation:
PRISSMH EA EA 4561, University of Toulouse, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. viviane.kostrubiec@univ-tlse3.fr
J. A. Scott Kelso
Affiliation:
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33421. kelso@ccs.fau.edu Intelligent Systems Research Centre, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry BT487JL, Northern Ireland.
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Abstract

We suggest the authors' endeavor toward a science of intentional change may benefit from recent advances in informationally meaningful self-organizing dynamical systems. Coordination Dynamics, having contributed to an understanding of behavior on several time scales – adaptation, learning, and development – and on different levels of analysis, from the neural to the social, may complement, if not enhance, the authors' insights.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 428 - 429
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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