Wolfgang Tschacher's Books

The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

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The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

The shared platform of the articles collected in this volume is used to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. It is argued that recent developments in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, have a major impact on behavioral and cognitive science. The book points out that there are two domains that follow naturally from the stance of embodiment: first, coordination dynamics is an established empirical paradigm that is best able to aid the approach; second, the obvious goal-directedness of intelligent action (i.e., intentionality) is nicely addressed in the framework of the dynamical synergetic approach.

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World Scientific

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9812386106

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The Process of Psychotherapy

Causation and Chance

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Hermann Haken

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The Process of Psychotherapy

Causation and Chance

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Hermann Haken

This book describes an encompassing modeling approach to psychotherapy, created with the most recent research in the field. Therapeutic interventions are staged within a therapist-client relationship ('alliance'), and become effective by the interplay of deterministic ('causation') and stochastic ('chance') forces. The authors use a Fokker-Planck approach complemented by a structural-mathematical framework from complexity theory. Chapters present statistical tools, which can be applied to analyze the differing time series that depict therapeutic processes. Chapters include examples of how to use these tools within research. The approach adopted in the book – contemporary psychotherapy terminology combined with a systems-theoretical model and algorithms for quantitative psychotherapy research – has the potential to become the new benchmark in psychotherapy. The Process of Psychotherapy is an informative and sophisticated resource for all levels of students, from undergraduate through post-doctoral studies, in the fields of psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychotherapy.

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Springer

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3030127486

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The Implications of Embodiment

Cognition and Communication

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Claudia Bergomi

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The Implications of Embodiment

Cognition and Communication

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Claudia Bergomi

This edited volume is scientifically based, but readable for a larger audience, covering the concept of "embodied cognition" and its implications from a transdisciplinary angle. The contributions are from the fields of psychology, computer science, biology, philosophy, and psychiatry. First, the roots of embodiment are described with historical, computer-science, and phenomenological viewpoints. It is argued that embodied cognition is relevant for the discussion of intentionality, with a particular focus on underlying neural processes as well as the context of synergetics and self-organization theory. As cognition is socially embedded, a large section of this book concentrates on "embodied communication": How does embodiment influence the way to approach others, what role do body movements play in social interaction, what is the function of nonverbal synchrony in interpersonal relationships and psychotherapy? Embodied cognitive agents are further embedded in particular cultural and environmental contexts. This book thus addresses the active role that cultural and environmental aspects play in driving cognition. Some applications of embodiment, e.g. to psychotherapy and aesthetics are also presented.

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Andrews UK Limited

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184540551X

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Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents

Nonlinear Systems Approaches to Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

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Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents

Nonlinear Systems Approaches to Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

This volume focuses on the modeling of cognition, and brings together contributions from psychologists and researchers in the field of cognitive science. The shared platform of this work is to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. Several aspects of this approach are considered here: chaos theory, artificial intelligence and Alife models, catastrophe theory and, most importantly, self-organization theory or synergetics. The application of nonlinear systems theory to cognitive science in general, and to cognitive psychology in particular, is a growing field that has gained further momentum thanks to new contributions from the science of robotics. The recent development in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, will have a major impact on our psychological understanding of reasoning, thinking and behavior.

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World Scientific

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9810238371

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9789810238377

Statistical Techniques for High-voltage Engineering

By: Wolfgang Hauschild,Wolfgang Mosch

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Statistical Techniques for High-voltage Engineering

By: Wolfgang Hauschild,Wolfgang Mosch

This book sets out statistical methods which can be used in the preparation, execution, evaluation and interpretation of experiments in high-voltage engineering, of a random nature.

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IET

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086341205X

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In a Pure Muslim Land

Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East

By: Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

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In a Pure Muslim Land

Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East

By: Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this "Land of the Pure." The notion of Pakistan as the pinnacle of modern global Muslim aspiration forms a crucial component of this story. It has empowered Shi'is, who form about twenty percent of the country's population, to advance alternative conceptions of their religious hierarchy while claiming the support of towering grand ayatollahs in Iran and Iraq. Fuchs shows how popular Pakistani preachers and scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi'ism, occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic thought. They have indigenized the Iranian Revolution and formulated their own ideas for fulfilling the original promise of Pakistan. Challenging typical views of Pakistan as a mere Shi'i backwater, Fuchs argues that its complex religious landscape represents how a local, South Asian Islam may open up space for new intellectual contributions to global Islam. Yet religious ideology has also turned Pakistan into a deadly battlefield: sectarian groups since the 1980s have been bent on excluding Shi'is as harmful to their own vision of an exemplary Islamic state.

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UNC Press Books

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1469649802

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The Implications of Embodiment

Cognition and Communication

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Claudia Bergomi

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Cognition and Communication

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Claudia Bergomi

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The Process of Psychotherapy

Causation and Chance

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Hermann Haken

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Causation and Chance

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The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

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The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

Concepts and Empirical Paradigms Based on Self-organization, Embodiment, and Coordination Dynamics

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

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981256439X

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Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology

Empirical Approaches to Synergetics in Psychology

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Günter Schiepek,Ewald J. Brunner

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Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology

Empirical Approaches to Synergetics in Psychology

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Günter Schiepek,Ewald J. Brunner

Self-organization and clinical psychology signals the advent of a new paradigm in psychology. Physicists, neuroscientists and individual and grouptherapists have joined forces to elucidate the new and exciting advances that are being achieved by applying the concepts of non-linear dynamics and self-organization to the human nervous system and the mind.

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3540555021

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The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

The Process of Psychotherapy

The Process of Psychotherapy

The Implications of Embodiment

The Implications of Embodiment

Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents

Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents

Statistical Techniques for High-voltage Engineering

Statistical Techniques for High-voltage Engineering

In a Pure Muslim Land

In a Pure Muslim Land

The Implications of Embodiment

The Implications of Embodiment

The Process of Psychotherapy

The Process of Psychotherapy

The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

The Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition

Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology

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