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Dynamical approaches to cognitive science

Beer, Randall D.·2000·Trends in Cognitive Sciences
DOI 10.1016/s1364-6613(99)01440-0
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Dynamical ideas are beginning to have a major impact on cognitive science, from foundational debates to daily practice. In this article, I review three contrasting examples of work in this area that address the lexical and grammatical structure of language, Piaget's classic 'A-not-B' error, and active categorical perception in an embodied, situated agent. From these three examples, I then attempt to articulate the major differences between dynamical approaches and more traditional symbolic and connectionist approaches. Although the three models reviewed here vary considerably in their details, they share a focus on the unfolding trajectory of a system's state and the internal and external forces that shape this trajectory, rather than the representational content of its constituent states or the underlying physical mechanisms that instantiate the dynamics. In some work, this dynamical viewpoint is augmented with a situated and embodied perspective on cognition, forming a promising unified theoretical framework for cognitive science broadly construed.

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  1. Weckerly, J. and Elman, J.L. (1992) A PDP approach to processing center-embedded sentences. In Proc. 14th Annu. Conf. Cognit. Sci. Soc., pp. 414–419, Erlbaum
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Authors
Beer, R. D.
Affiliations
Case Western Reserve University (US)
Corresponding author
Beer, Randall D.
ORCID
Beer, Randall D.
Venue
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-03
Volume
4
Issue
3
Pages
91-99
ISSN
1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s1364-6613(99)01440-0
OpenAlex
W2154409655
Cited by
639
References
75
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Cognitive Science and Education Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
Keywords
dynamical systems theory, cognitive science, A-not-B error, categorical perception, embodied cognition, situated cognition, symbolic approach, connectionism, representational content, cognitive trajectories

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