Letting structure emerge: connectionist and dynamical systems approaches to cognition

JL McClelland, MM Botvinick, DC Noelle… - Trends in cognitive …, 2010 - cell.com
Connectionist and dynamical systems approaches explain human thought, language and
behavior in terms of the emergent consequences of a large number of simple noncognitive …

Dynamic field theory of movement preparation.

W Erlhagen, G Schöner - Psychological review, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
A theoretical framework for understanding movement preparation is proposed. Movement
parameters are represented by activation fields, distributions of activation defined over …

The dynamics of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching

E Thelen, G Schöner, C Scheier… - Behavioral and brain …, 2001 - cambridge.org
The overall goal of this target article is to demonstrate a mechanism for an embodied
cognition. The particular vehicle is a much-studied, but still widely debated phenomenon …

Trajectory planning and tracking strategy applied to an unmanned ground vehicle in the presence of obstacles

X Zhou, X Yu, Y Zhang, Y Luo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a dynamic environment, moving to the destination safely and effectively is of paramount
importance for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). This article presents a strategy of …

Bridging the representational gap in the dynamic systems approach to development

JP Spencer, G Schöner - Developmental Science, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the relationship between the dynamic systems approach to development and a
recent approach to the dynamics of representational states–the dynamic field approach …

[HTML][HTML] Obstacle avoidance and target acquisition for robot navigation using a mixed signal analog/digital neuromorphic processing system

MB Milde, H Blum, A Dietmüller… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Neuromorphic hardware emulates dynamics of biological neural networks in electronic
circuits offering an alternative to the von Neumann computing architecture that is low-power …

[PDF][PDF] Toward a unified theory of development

JP Spencer, MSC Thomas… - JP Spencer, MSC …, 2009 - researchgate.net
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the question of how dynamic systems theory can be
fruitfully applied to the development of the kind of phenomena and variables that have …

The dynamic neural field approach to cognitive robotics

W Erlhagen, E Bicho - Journal of neural engineering, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
This tutorial presents an architecture for autonomous robots to generate behavior in joint
action tasks. To efficiently interact with another agent in solving a mutual task, a robot should …

A dynamical systems approach to behavior-based formation control

S Monteiro, E Bicho - … on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dynamical systems theory is used here as a theoretical language and tool to design a
distributed control architecture that generates navigation in formation, integrated with …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic neural fields as a step toward cognitive neuromorphic architectures

Y Sandamirskaya - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic Field Theory (DFT) is an established framework for modeling embodied cognition.
In DFT, elementary cognitive functions such as memory formation, formation of grounded …