Self-organization, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Bruineberg, Jelle ^a,b   Rietveld, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affordances; Free energy principle; Landscape of affordances; Merleau Ponty; Metastability; Neurodynamics; Optimal grip; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905995040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00599     Document Type: Article

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