Connectionists: CFP: Dynamics and Psychology

[Aarre Laakso]

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

*New Ideas in Psychology*

Published by Elsevier Science B.V. ISSN 0732-118X, URL:
<http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=678>

A Special Issue on 'Dynamics and Psychology'

GUEST EDITORS

Paco Calvo (U. Murcia, Spain)
Aarre Laakso (Indiana University, USA)
Toni Gomila (U. Illes Balears, Spain)

Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2006


New Ideas in Psychology is calling papers for a special issue entitled
'Dynamics and Psychology'.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together some of the
leading views on dynamicism as it relates to psychological phenomena.
Although the primary focus is on conceptual ideas regarding the status
of dynamicism from the standpoint of Developmental Psychology, Cognitive
Science, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and related fields,
empirical work is also welcome insofar as it bears explicitly upon
theoretical debate.

New Ideas in Psychology invites original contributions for the
forthcoming special issue on Dynamics and Psychology from a broad scope
of areas. Some key research issues and topics relevant to this special
issue include:

*Brain and cognitive function
*Categorical perception
*Dynamic computer simulations
*Dynamic field approach
*Dynamic systems theory and developmental theory
*Dynamics of control of processing
*Dynamics of social interaction
*Emergence
*Intermodality
*Language development
*Mental representation
*Motor development
*Neurobiological constraints
*Perceptual learning
*Self-organization of behavior
*Sensory-motor and perception-action loops
*Temporality

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINE

Manuscripts, following the New Ideas in Psychology guidelines
(<http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=678&dc=GFA>)
should be emailed to Paco Calvo (fjcalvo at um.es) by September 30th, 2006.

INVITED CONTRIBUTORS

The special issue will include invited papers by:

Dante Chialvo (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago)
Eliana Colunga (Colorado, Boulder) and Linda Smith (Indiana University)
Rick Grush (UCSD)
Aarre Laakso (Indiana University)
John Spencer (University of Iowa)

RELATED AND SAMPLE ARTICLES

*Bechtel, W. (1998) "Representations and cognitive explanations:
assessing the dynamicist's challenge in cognitive science", Cognitive
Science, 22, 295-318.

*Beer, R. D. (1995) "A dynamical systems perspective on
agent-environment interaction", Artificial Intelligence, 72, 173-215.

*Clark, A. (1997) "The dynamical challenge", Cognitive Science, 21, 461-481.

*Erlhagen, W. & Schöner, G. (2002) "Dynamic field theory of movement
preparation", Psychological Review, 109, 545-572.

*Nuñez, R. & Freeman, W.J. (1999) Reclaiming cognition: the primacy of
action, intention and emotion. Imprint Academic.

*Prinz, J. J., & Barsalou, L. W. (2000) "Steering a course for embodied
representation", In E. Dietrich & A. B. *Markman (Eds.), Cognitive
dynamics: Conceptual and representational change in humans and machines
(pp. 51-77). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

*Spencer, J.P. & Schöner, G. (2003) "Bridging the representational gap
in the dynamic systems approach to development", Developmental Science,
6, 392-412.

*Sporns, O., Chialvo, D., Kaiser, M. & Hilgetag, C. (2004)
"Organization, development and function of complex brain networks",
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 418-425.

*Thelen, E., Schöner, G., Scheier, C. & Smith, L. (2001) "The dynamics
of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching",
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1-86.

*Townsend, J. T., & Busemeyer, J. (1995) "Dynamic representation of
decision making", In R. F. Port & T. Van Gelder (Eds.), Mind as motion.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

*Turvey, M. T., & Carello, C. (1995) "Some dynamical themes in
perception and action" In R. F. Port & T. Van *Gelder (Eds.), Mind as
motion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

*van Gelder, T. (1998) "The dynamical hypothesis in Cognitive Science",
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 615-665.

GUEST EDITORS

Paco Calvo
Departamento de Filosofía
Universidad de Murcia
E-30100 Murcia - SPAIN
e-mail: fjcalvo at um.es

Aarre Laakso
Department of Psychology
Indiana University
1101 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
e-mail: alaakso at indiana.edu

Toni Gomila
Department of Psychology
University of the Balearic Islands
E-07122 Palma de Mallorca - SPAIN
e-mail: toni.gomila at uib.es