The interdisciplinary handbook of perceptual control theory : living control systems IV /: living control systems IV. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Warren Mansell.
• Editors: Mansell, Warren
• Contents: Part I Why do we need perceptual control theory? 1. The world according to PCT 2. Understanding purposeful systems: the application of control theory in engineering and psychology 3. The crisis in neuroscience 4. When causation does not imply correlation: robust violations of the faithfulness axiom Part II Models of brain and behavior 5. Unraveling the dynamics of dyadic interactions: perceptual control in animal contests 6. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: Structuring for Perceptual Results 7. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: input and output functions 8. The phylogeny, ontogeny, causation and function of regression periods explained by reorganizations of the hierarchy of perceptual control systems Part III Collective control and communication 9. Social structure and control: perceptual control theory and the science of sociology 10. Perceptual control in cooperative interaction 11. Language and thought as control of perception Part IV Applications 12. Perceptions of control theory in industrial-organizational psychology: disturbances and counter-disturbances 13. Method of Levels Therapy 14. Robotics in the real world: the perceptual control theory approach 15. PCT and beyond: toward a computational framework for ‘intelligent’ communicative systems Part V Synthesis 16. Ten vital elements of perceptual control theory, tracing the pathway from implicit influence to scientific advance
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 153.7; Perceptual control theory; Information theory in psychology; Human behavior
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128189498
• Related ISBNs: 9780128189481
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