Development as Change of System Dynamics: Stability, Instability, and Emergence

Toward a Unified Theory of Development Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Consider

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schöner, Gregor ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral change; Behavioral patterns; Cognitive process; Dynamical systems theory; Learning; Representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921606967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300598.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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