Abstract Concepts Require Concrete Models: Why Cognitive Scientists Have Not Yet Embraced Nonlinearly Coupled, Dynamical, Self-Organized Critical, Synergistic, Scale-Free, Exquisitely Context-Sensitive, Interaction-Dominant, Multifractal, Interdependent Brain-Body-Niche Systems

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-93

  Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Van Der Maas, Han L J ^a   Farrell, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Formal model; Nonlinear dynamical systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMMUNICATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH;

EID: 84855948083     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01164.x     Document Type: Article

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