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One of the most fundamental, but least understood features of living things is the high degree of coordination among the system’s many parts. Our aim is to identify the principles that govern how the individual components of a complex, biological system are put together to form recognizable functions. Stable and reproducible functions are observed on many scales of observation in biology and psychology. In the field of neuroscience, they may be exemplified in patterns generated by neural circuitry, in physiology by the beating of the heart, in behavior by actions such as locomotion, speech or reaching for objects. The interacting components that make up these functions are diverse in structure and possess their own dynamics. Our concern here is more in the form that the interactions take than the material composition of the components themselves. In particular, when the elements (e.g. genes, neurons, muscles, joints) interact in such a way as to generate dynamic patterns, we speak of coordination or cooperation.
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Kelso, J.A.S., DeGuzman, G.C., Holroyd, T. (1991). The Self-Organized Phase Attractive Dynamics of Coordination. In: Babloyantz, A. (eds) Self-Organization, Emerging Properties, and Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 260. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3778-6_4
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