A Dynamic systems approach to development : applications / edited by Linda B. Smith and Esther Thelen.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Dynamic pattern formation : a primer / J.A. Scott Kelso, Mingzhou Ding, and Gregor Schöner -- Dynamic systems in development : action systems / Eugene C. Goldfield -- On the development of walking as a limit-cycle system / Jane E. Clark, Terri L. Truly, and Sally J. Phillips -- New ways to think about old questions / Mary Ann Robertson -- Behavioral chaos : beyond the metaphor / Steven S. Robertson, Avis H. Cohen, and Gottfried Mayer-Kress -- Dynamic approaches to infant perception and action : old and new theories about the origins of knowledge / George Butterworth -- Behavioral and emotional states in infancy : a dynamic perspective / Peter H. Wolff -- Complementary processes in the perception and production of human movements / Bennett I. Bertenthal and Jeannine Pinto -- The dynamics of action and interaction / Darren Newtson.

A dynamic systems model of cognitive growth : competition and support under limited resource conditions / Paul van Geert -- Toddlers' achievement of coordinated action with conspecifics : a dynamic systems perspective / Carol O. Eckerman -- Systems and language : implications for acquisition / Michael Tucker and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek -- Commentary : the strange attractiveness of dynamic systems to development / Richard N. Aslin.

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Annotation What do laser lights, crystals, walking, reaching, and concepts have in common? All are complex dynamic systems. Over the last decade, the burgeoning fields of synergetics and nonlinear dynamics have shown in mathematically precise ways how such complex systems can produce emergent order from the cooperation of many simpler elements." A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development" explores the value of dynamical systems principles for solving the enduring puzzles of development, including the ultimate source of change, the problems of continuity and discontinuities, and nonlinear outcomes and individual differences. This companion volume to the forthcoming "A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action" shows how the ideas of dynamic systems may form the basis for a new theory of human development. The problems considered include areas of motor development, perceptual and cognitive development, and social development. The use of dynamic systems ranges from the metaphorical to the rigorously mathematical, but in all cases the contributions present a step forward in developmental theory. Linda B. Smith and Esther Thelen are both Professors of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University.

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