CONCEPT – The picture provides one view of our study of the complementary nature, that is entitled, ‘The Four Aspects’. The Four Aspects are: (1) The Squiggle Sense, abbreviated TSS (2) The Complementary Nature, abbreviated TCN, (3) Complementary Pairs, abbreviated CP, and are also called squiggles (4) Coordination Dynamics, abbreviated CD. Take a look at the picture, a tetrahedran with the four aspects...
VIKTOR JIRSA – “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 by ideas borne by the theory of Dynamic Systems and Self-organization. Over the last two decades a rhythmic movement paradigm has been the dominant experimental task constraint in this...
J. A. SCOTT KELSO – “I thought it might be useful to say a few words about the history of Coordination Dynamics and to take stock of how far we’ve come and where we are going. It’s my hope that as a result of this meeting we can identify gaps requiring further experimental and theoretical research, with the goal of course of understanding the laws, principles and mechanisms of coordination in different...
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 in the concepts of self-organization and the tools of nonlinear dynamics, appropriately extended to handle informational aspects of living things, Coordination Dynamics aims to...
LECTURE ABSTRACT – by J. A. Scott Kelso This lecture comes in three “movements” and arises out of a new book (Kelso, J. A. S. & D. A. Engstrom, The Complementary Nature, (2006 MIT Press). The first movement explores the central role of ubiquitous “contrarieties” in the history of ideas (both in philosophy and science). We refer to all such contrarieties as “complementary pairs”...
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 oscillations are coupled or “bound” together into a coherent network when people attend to a stimulus, perceive, remember, think and act. However, information processing in the brain requires a...
