Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Coordination Dynamics of the Human~Machine
In a just released scientific journal article entitled ‘Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Exploring Novel Behaviors via Coordination Dynamics’, brain scientists Kelso, de Guzman, Reveley and Tognoli have introduced ‘Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI)’: “a coupled dynamical...
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The Squiggles of Coordination Dynamics
“The current CP of CD (squiggle) collection furnishes a kind of consulting tool, an aid to study that can help one better understand the various concepts, principles, and phenomena of coordination dynamics. It also provides a nonmathematical, but...
Review of Kelso’s Dynamic Patterns
J. A. Scott Kelso. Dynamic Patterns: the self-organization of brain and behavior. MIT Press. 1995
Review
This marvellous book describes a wealth of biological features in terms of the structure of the underlying dynamical space, its bifurcations,...
The Squiggle Sense of The Glass Bead Game
“As long as Knecht permitted the flow of inner images to come without direction, as they do, like dreams, in the initial stage of relaxation, there were two prinicipal scenes which emerged from the stream and lingered, two pictures or symbols,...
The Squiggle Sense of Dune
“Perfect defenses are not always an advantage. Complete protection can become a hindrance for it limits you in other ways.”
House Harkonnen, From The Dune Series — Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
“Body and mind...
Can An Electron Be Two Places At One Time?
MAX PLANCK SOCIETY Press Release News C / 2005 (43)
“Max Planck Researchers in Berlin show that for electrons from nitrogen molecules, the wave-particle character exists simultaneously
The double-slit was voted the most beautiful experiment...
The Squiggle Sense of the Vitruvian Man
From Wikipedia on The Vitruvian Man: “This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo’s keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of...
The Complementary Nature
OVERVIEW
J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrøm have written The Complementary Nature to summarize their research plan. In this book, Kelso and Engstrøm contend that ubiquitous contraries are complementary and propose a comprehensive, empirically-based...
Squigglespeak of the Day
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others…
The Squiggle (~) Symbol:
“The squiggle (~) is our symbol connecting contraries and other mutually and inextricably...
The Metastable Brain: Coordination Dynamics of Binding and its Breakdown
by J. A. Scott Kelso
A considerable amount of evidence and theory suggests that transient, short-lived phase-coupled oscillations within and between specialized areas of the brain provide a mechanism for neural integration. The idea is that these...
Theoretical Foundations of Coordination Dynamics
by Viktor Jirsa, November 9th, 2005
Researchers in the field of Coordination Dynamics aim to identify general laws of pattern formation in human movements rather than searching for a locus of movement pattern generation. This approach is inspired...
An Overview of Coordination Dynamics
TSS: In the following excerpts of J. A. Scott Kelso’s introduction speech to the Coordination Dynamics 2002 Meeting, we are given still another useful overview of coordination dynamics, a brief flyover of its history and central themes. Note...
An Essay on Understanding the Mind
by. J. A. Scott Kelso
Several conjectures by A. S. Iberall on life and mind are used as a backdrop to sketch a theory of mental activity that respects both the contents of thought and the dynamics of thinking. The dynamics, in this case, refers fundamentally...
Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends
Coordination comes in many guises and represents one of the most striking, but least understood features of living things. Over the last 20 years or so a new foundation for understanding coordination has emerged called Coordination Dynamics. Grounded...
Squigglespeak of Inna Semetsky
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others…
Inna Semetsky
“I cite Kelso and Engstrom who use the sign “~” to pinpoint the relation: “In the case of human...
The Coordination Dynamics Law - An Equation of Life?
“In coordination dynamics, where apartness and togetherness coexist as a complementary pair—where a whole is a part and a part is a whole—there are no equilibria, no fixed points at all.”
TCN — J. A. Scott Kelso &...
The Squiggle Sense of Yin~Yang
“The dynamic unity of opposites can be illustrated with the simple example of a circular motion and its projection…The circular movement will appear as an oscillation between two opposite points, but in the movement itself the opposites...
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EEG CD: Neuromarkers of Social Coordination
by Emmanuelle Tognoli*
ABSTRACT - The aim of this chapter is to present a framework of EEG coordination dynamics based on rhythmical entrainment of brain activity. The interest of continuous brain∼behavior1 analysis is underlined and its principles...
The Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory
THE LAST GREAT CHALLENGE: Understanding Human Brains
The human brain is complex, possessing some 1012 neurons and 1014 neuronal connections. Out of this enormous complexity patterns of cognition, emotion and behavior somehow emerge. What laws,...
The Coordination of Life
by J. A. S. Kelso
“The coordination of living things is one of the great mysteries in the science of life. Coordination is in us and all around us. It is everywhere we look–from the coordination among the genes that make us who we are...
The Complementary Nature of Coordination Dynamics: Toward a Science of the In-Between
by J. A. Scott Kelso pdf
Excerpts From ‘Whither a Science of the In-Between?’
“…we need a science that embraces not only the extremes, but also the vast world of the in-between (Kelso and Engstrom 2005). That science is emerging and has gathered...
Brain, Behavior, and Beyond: A Seminar on Coordination Dynamics
A Brief History of Coordination
J.A. Scott Kelso
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
This talk will trace, in a somewhat personal and informal fashion, the origins of Coordination Dynamics...
J. A. Scott Kelso’s Contributions to Our Understanding of Coordination
Book Chapter by Armin Fuchs* and Viktor K. Jirsa*
1 Introduction
“Does old Scotty still make a living from finger wagging?” A question asked by an Irish man who had known Scott Kelso since both were children. The answer: “Yes, and doing quite...
From Quantum Mechanics to The Complementary Nature
Scientifically speaking, nature is grounded in the laws of quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics, a strange situation arises: atoms and photons can behave as either waves or particles, and which behavior is observed depends upon the instrument...
Grounding Yin~Yang in Coordination Dynamics
Among other ways of saying it, the complementary nature is about grounding yin~yang relationships in a new principle of how the human brain works.
For example, on the one hand people think the brain works as an integrated organ where information...
Coordination Dynamics of The Complementary Nature
ABSTRACT
Niels Bohr’s maxim contraria sunt complementa (contraries are complementary) indicated his strong suspicion that the complementarity interpretation of quantum mechanics might someday be expanded into a generalized principle. It now appears...
Systems and Levels Studied with Coordination Dynamics
Between components of an organism
Bimanual coordination
Interlimb coordination
Within-limb multijoint coordination
Between an organism and the environment
Visually specified coordination patterns
Patterns of auditory-motor coordination
Between organisms...
Coordination Dynamics of the Horse~Rider System
by J. Lagarde, J. A. S.Kelso, C. Peham and T. Licka pdf
TSS: Here is one of the first scientific journal articles to use a squiggle (horse~rider) in its title. Using coordination dynamics to understand a complementary pair outside the field of coordination...
TCN of CD: Self-Organization and Agency
by J. A. Scott Kelso pdf
Twenty years of empirical and theoretical research has demonstrated that basic forms of biological coordination arise and change due to self-organizing synergetic processes. Here we suggest, using facts and ideas from brain...
