A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action

By David J. Lewkowicz, R. Lickliter. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Experience Grounds Language (2020, background): “In human development, interactive multimodal sensory experience forms the basis of action-oriented categories (Thelen and Smith, 1996) as children learn how to manipulate their perception by manipulating their environment.”
Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “In the case of human infants, multisensory perceptual mechanisms are fundamental to object and event perception, speech and language perception and production, and social responsiveness (Gibson, 1969; Piaget, 1952; Thelen & Smith, 1994).”
A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets. (2004, background): “Again, a related but somewhat richer hypothesis is that young children simply associate events but do not infer genuine causal relations between them (see, e.g., Elman et al., 1996; Thelen & Smith, 1994).”
Children’s Creativity: A Theoretical Framework and Systematic Review (2018, background): “…the same function in development as it does in creativity (the emergence of novelty), variability over time is actually a characteristic of interactions between the person and his or her direct environment over time (Thelen & Smith, 1994; van Dijk & van Geert, 2015; van Geert & van Dijk, 2002).”
The dynamics of perception and action. (2006, background): “In principle, stable behavioral solutions could be identified on the time scale of learning, development, or evolution (Thelen & Smith, 1994).”
Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality (2001, background): “The very strong appeal of agency to explain events may come from the subjective experience of cause and effect that develops early in human life, before the acquisition of language, when as infants we go through the somatomotor phase (Piaget 1930; Thelen and Smith 1994) and learn to control our limb”
Evolving grounded communication for robots. (2003, background): “complex adaptive dynamics occurs in a wide variety of natural systems and has been studied intensely in complex systems science [1] and embodied cognitive science [ 25 ].”
Middle-School Students' Understanding of the Equal Sign: The Books They Read Can't Help (2006, background): “Indeed, a number of researchers have argued that knowledge of concepts may be context dependent (e.g., Barsalou, 1982; Munakata, McClelland, Johnson, & Siegler, 1997; Thelen & Smith, 1994).”
Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance (2015, background): “…from neurophysiological and brain-imaging studies (Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia, 2008), implementation of dynamic systems theory in human development (Thelen & Smith, 1994), and findings in artificial intelligence (Clark, 1997), intersubjectivity (De Jaegher 2009; Gallese, 2001), neurophenomenology…”
Taking Up Opportunities to Learn: Constructing Dispositions in Mathematics Classrooms (2009, background): “In this way, student participation in a classroom can be thought of as a kind of dynamic system (Barab et al., 1999; Thelen & Smith, 1994).”
Understanding Developmental Regulation in Adolescence: The Use of the Selection, Optimization,and Compensation Model (2001, background): “Developmental systems models stress that reciprocal changes among levels of organization are both products and producers of the reciprocal changes within levels [Ford & Lerner, 1992; Sameroff, 1983; Thelen & Smith, 1994, 1998].”
Epistemological resources and framing: a cognitive framework for helping teachers interpret and respond to their students' epistemologies (2010, methodology): “We lack a precise developmental story, but we subscribe to a dynamic systems view (Thelen & Smith, 1994) of development as a progressive construction of patterns of resource activation.”
What are Fundamental Motor Skills and What is Fundamental About Them? (2020, background): “Figure 2 shows a schematic originally from Muchisky, Gershkoff-Stowe, Cole, and Thelen (1996) revised by Thelen and Smith (1994) that is an elaboration of Waddington ’ s (1957) epigenetic landscape for development.”
Intersensory Perception at Birth: Newborns Match Nonhuman Primate Faces and Voices. (2010, result): “conception of their world (E. J. Gibson, 1969; Piaget, 1954; Thelen & Smith, 1994 ).”
The Biological Implausibility of the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy & What It Means for the Study of Infancy (2011, background): “…general approach has spawned a number of variants such as probabilistic epigenesis (Gottlieb, 1998; Gottlieb, et al., 2006; Kuo, 1967; Schneirla, 1957), transactionalism (Sameroff & Chandler, 1975), dynamical systems (Thelen & Smith, 1994), and developmental contextualism (Lerner & Kaufman, 1985).”