Topics in Cognitive Science 4 (1):78-83 (2012)
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The dynamical systems approach in cognitive science offers a potentially useful perspective on both brain and behavior. Indeed, the importation of formal tools from dynamical systems research has already paid off for our field in many ways. However, like some other theoretical perspectives in cognitive science, the dynamical systems approach comes in both moderate or pragmatic and “fundamentalist” varieties (Jones & Love, 2011). In the latter form, dynamical systems theory can rise to some stirring rhetorical heights. However, as argued here, it also triggers a number of serious and specific reservations
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Keywords | Unified theories of cognition Dynamical systems theory Formal models Complexity theory 1/f noise Computational models |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01170.x |
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