Call for papers – New Ideas in Psychology
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 […]
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
Call for papers
Published by Elsevier Science B.V. ISSN 0732-118X,
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 should be emailed to Paco Calvo 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)
- 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 (e-mail) at Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Murcia, E-30100 Murcia – SPAIN
Aarre Laakso (e-mail) at Department of Psychology, Indiana University, 1101 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
Toni Gomila (e-mail at Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca – SPAIN
