Journal
NEW IDEAS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue -, Pages 46-55Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2015.08.001
Keywords
Language; Information in biological systems; Dynamical systems; Ecological psychology
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- ESF EuroCORES Euro-Understanding grant [DRUST 888/N-EuroUnder/2011/0]
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Recent changes in views on cognition underscore its embodied, situated and distributed character. These changes are compatible with the conceptual framework of ecological psychology. However for ecological psychology to propose explanations for a broad range of cognitive phenomena, including language, it needs an account of how to link the dynamics of coupling between the organism and the environment with the apparent symbolicity of informational structures. In this paper it is proposed that a theory of information in biological systems, advocated by Howard Pattee, may help forge this link. By treating informational structures as constraints on dynamics this approach helps to identify which processes, in which systems and on what time-scales are needed for structures to 'become messages'. I will illustrate how these processes might work on developmental time-scale in the domain of language, building on the work by Edward Reed (1995, 1996) and extending it using the view of linguistic structures as constraints. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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