Michael Spivey

The Continuity of Mind (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Spivey has organized The Continuity of Mind to present a systematic overview of how perception, cognition, and action are partially overlapping segments of one continuous mental flow, rather than three distinct mental systems. As a result, the apparent partitions that were once thought to separate mental constructs inevitably turn out, upon closer inspection, to be fuzzy graded transitions. The initial chapters provide first-hand demonstrations of the 'gray areas' in mental activity that happen in between discretely labeled mental events, as well as geometric visualizations of attractors in state space that make the dynamical-systems framework seem less mathematically abstract. The middle chapters present scores of behavioral and neurophysiological studies that portray the continuous temporal dynamics inherent in categorization, language comprehension, visual perception, as well as attention, action, and reasoning. The final chapters discuss what the mind itself must look like if its activity is continuous in time and its contents are distributed in state space. The Continuity of Mind is essential reading for those in the cognitive and neural sciences who want to see where the Dynamical Cognition movement is taking us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199708048
• Artikelnr.: 63038909

Inhaltsangabe

1: Toward a Continuity Psychology
2: Some Conceptual Tools for Tracking Continuous Mental Trajectories
3: Some Experimental Tools for Tracking Continuous Mental Trajectories
4: Some Simulation Tools for Tracking Continuous Mental Trajectories
5: Constructive Feedback for Modularity
6: On the Temporal Dynamics of Categorization
7: Temporal Dynamics of Language Comprehension
8: Temporal Dynamics of Visual Perception
9: Temporal Dynamics in Action
10: Temporal Dynamics in Reasoning?
11: Uniting and Freeing the Mind
12: Dynamical (Self-)Consciousness?