Representation and behavior / Fred Keijzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keijzer, Fred A., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Human behavior.

Mental representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 276 pages)

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2001]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Keijzer provides a reconstruction of cognitive science's implicit representational explanation of behavior, which he calls Agent Theory (AT). AT is the use of mind as a subpersonal mechanism of behavior. He proposes an alternative to AT called Behavioral Systems Theory (BST), which explains behavior as the result of interactions between an organism and its environment. Keijzer compares BST to related work in the biology of cognition, in the building of animal-like robots, and in dynamical systems theory. Most important, he extends BST to the difficult issue of anticipatory behavior through an analogy between behavior and morphogenesis, the process by which a multicellular body develops.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Keijzer, Fred A., 1960- Representation and behavior.

ISBN:

9780262276894

0262276895

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