Interaction-Dominant Causation in Mind and Brain, and Its Implication for Questions of Generalization and Replication

Minds and Machines

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 353-374

  Wallot, Sebastian ^a   Kelty Stephen, Damian G ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS   (Germany)

^b GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Component dominant dynamics; Generalization; Interaction dominant dynamics; Multi fractality; Replication

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE;

A-STABLE; COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES; FRACTALITY; GENERALIZATION; REPLICABILITY; REPLICATION; STUDY DESIGN;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 85035340201     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: 15728641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-017-9455-0     Document Type: Article

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