Coordination represents one of the most striking, most taken for granted, but least understood features of living things. Recently a new foundation for understanding coordination has emerged called Coordination Dynamics . This book brings together scientists from all over the world who have defined and developed the field of Coordination Dynamics. Grounded in the concepts of self-organization and the tools of nonlinear dynamics, appropriately extended to handle informational aspects of living things, Coordination Dynamics aims to understand the coordinated functioning of a variety of different systems at multiple levels of description. The book addresses the themes of Coordination Dynamics and Dynamic Patterns in the context of the following topics: Coordination of Brain and Behavior, Perception-Action Coupling, Control, Posture, Learning, Intention, Attention, and Cognition.

First book of its kind in the area of coordination dynamics Coherent book intended for a broad audience

Inhalt
I: Philosophical Investigations of Coordination Dynamics: Perception and Action.- Impredicativity, Dynamics, and the Perception-Action Divide.- II: Cognitive Contributions to Coordination Dynamics: Attention, Intention and Learning.- A Dynamical Approach to the Interplay of Attention and Bimanual Coordination.- Intention in Bimanual Coordination Performance and Learning.- Searching for (Dynamic) Principles of Learning.- III: Coordination Dynamics of Posture: Control Mechanisms.- Using Visual Information in Functional Stabilization: Pole-Balancing Example.- Postural Coordination Dynamics in Standing Humans.- Noise Associated with the Process of Fusing Multisensory Information.- IV: Perceptual and Motoric Influences on Coordination Dynamics.- Governing Coordination. Why do Muscles Matter?.- Guiding Movements without Redundancy Problems.- A Perceptual-Cognitive Approach to Bimanual Coordination.- V: Integration and Segregation in Coordination Dynamics.- Complex Neural Dynamics.- Oscillations and Synchrony in Cognition.- Integration and Segregation of Perceptual and Motor Behavior.- Author Index.