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@article{2006-04733-006, abstract = {How might one account for the organization in behavior without attributing it to an internal control structure? The present article develops a theoretical framework called behavioral dynamics that integrates an information-based approach to perception with a dynamical systems approach to action. For a given task, the agent and its environment are treated as a pair of dynamical systems that are coupled mechanically and informationally. Their interactions give rise to the behavioral dynamics, a vector field with attractors that correspond to stable task solutions, repellers that correspond to avoided states, and bifurcations that correspond to behavioral transitions. The framework is used to develop theories of several tasks in which a human agent interacts with the physical environment, including bouncing a ball on a racquet, balancing an object, braking a vehicle, and guiding locomotion. Stable, adaptive behavior emerges from the dynamics of the interaction between a structured environment and an agent with simple control laws, under physical and informational constraints. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)}, address = {William H. Warren, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, US, 02912, william\_warren\_jr@brown.edu}, author = {Warren, William H.}, citeulike-article-id = {3434206}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org.monstera.cc.columbia.edu:2048/10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.358}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.358}, doi = {10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.358}, isbn = {0033-295X (Print); 1939-1471 (Electronic)}, journal = {Psychological Review}, keywords = {control-theory, dynamical-hypothesis}, number = {2}, pages = {358--389}, posted-at = {2008-10-21 16:02:03}, priority = {3}, publisher = {American Psychological Association: US}, title = {The dynamics of perception and action.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.358}, volume = {113}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - 2006-04733-006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3434206 N2 - How might one account for the organization in behavior without attributing it to an internal control structure? The present article develops a theoretical framework called behavioral dynamics that integrates an information-based approach to perception with a dynamical systems approach to action. For a given task, the agent and its environment are treated as a pair of dynamical systems that are coupled mechanically and informationally. Their interactions give rise to the behavioral dynamics, a vector field with attractors that correspond to stable task solutions, repellers that correspond to avoided states, and bifurcations that correspond to behavioral transitions. The framework is used to develop theories of several tasks in which a human agent interacts with the physical environment, including bouncing a ball on a racquet, balancing an object, braking a vehicle, and guiding locomotion. Stable, adaptive behavior emerges from the dynamics of the interaction between a structured environment and an agent with simple control laws, under physical and informational constraints. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) IS - 2 JF - Psychological Review SN - 0033-295X (Print); 1939-1471 (Electronic) AD - William H. Warren, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, US, 02912, william_warren_jr@brown.edu EP - 389 TI - The dynamics of perception and action. PB - American Psychological Association: US VL - 113 SP - 358 KW - control-theory KW - dynamical-hypothesis AU - Warren, William PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.358 ER -