BENITES, TOGNOLI, DEGUZMAN & KELSO – “In the framework of coordination dynamics, opponent pairs of concepts (e.g. self and other) may be formally viewed as complementary forces of a dynamical system (Kelso & Engstrøm, 2008). These forces create rich behavior during which tendencies for integration and segregation co-exist. Integration of self- and other-behavior leads to cooperative action and...
ABSTRACT – The basic reciprocity between individual parts and collective organization constitutes a key scientific question spanning the biological and social sciences. Such reciprocity is accompanied by the absence of direct linkages between levels of description giving rise to what is often referred to as the aggregation or nonequivalence problem between levels of analysis. This issue is encountered both in...
In a recent 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 system for studying real time interaction between a human and a machine. In this proof of concept study, human subjects coordinate...
J. A. SCOTT KELSO – “This talk traced, in a somewhat personal and informal fashion, the origins of Coordination Dynamics and its evolution as a scientific approach to the deep problem of coordination in complex, living things. From rather humble beginnings, Coordination Dynamics has taken some unexpected turns and now figures quite prominently in a number of fields, both basic and applied. Some new directions were...
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 dynamics itself is an example of the “CD of CP” strategy. Here is an excerpt from the introduction, giving you the basic idea of the study: “However, the nature of the coordination between the rider and the...
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others… The following excerpt comes from the article by Fred Cummins, Deep Affordance: Seeing the Self in the World: Fred Cummins – Cognitive Science Programme – University College Dublin “Let us now consider the Umwelt of the E. Coli bacterium in this cartoonishly simple sketch. As we have...
JOURNAL ARTICLE – Reaction-Anticipation Transitions in Human Perception-Action Patterns Engstrøm, D. A., Kelso, J. A. S. and Holroyd, T. ABSTRACT We investigated the hypothesis that reaction and anticipation in human perceptual-motor performance are two coordinative modes of a single pattern-forming dynamical system, rather than separate behaviors. Subjects coordinated the onset of finger flexions with visual metronome...
by J. A. Scott Kelso* and Emmanuelle Tognoli* ABSTRACT Metastability has been proposed as a new principle of behavioral and brain function and may point the way to a truly complementary neuroscience. From elementary coordination dynamics we show explicitly that metastability is a result of a symmetry breaking caused by the subtle interplay of two forces: the tendency of the components to couple together and the tendency of...
