On the control and coordination of naturally developing systems.
| Number | 378 |
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| Year | 1982 |
| Drawer | 7 |
| Entry Date | 06/15/1999 |
| Authors | Kugler, P. N., Kelso, J. A. S., & Turvey, M. T. |
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| Publication | In J. A. S. Kelso & J. E. Clark (Eds.), The development of movement control and coordination (pp. 5- 78). Chichester: John Wiley. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0378.pdf |
| Abstract | The purpose of this chapter is to present and to discuss certain principles as a backdrop for the thesis that an understanding of the developmental facts of movement control and co-ordination requires a physical (than than a formal) approach carefully tempered by a realist (rather than a nonrealist) philosophical attitude. Our presentation and discussion are largely in the tutorial mode because the principles are not commonplace departure points for students of biology, engineering science and, in particular, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the ecological approach to perception and action. Throughout, or paradigm issue is an aspect of the larger developmental picture, namely, the implications of a scaling-up in the body’s magnitudes for the control and co-ordination of movements. And within the scope of this latter issue our concentration is on the notion of information: how can information be conceptualized so that it is continuously co-ordinated with changes in skeletomuscular dynamics that are brought about by changes in skeletomuscular dimensions? |
| Notes | abstract taken from the chapter’s introduction |
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