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The term “behavior” here is meant in a most general way, refering to the coordinated spatiotemporal behavior of living things and processes on multiple levels. Thus the behavior may be of a cellular, neuronal, bodily, cognitive, emotional, social, economic, etc. kind. Both informational and metabolic aspects are co-implicated in synergies.
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Kelso, J.A.S. (2009). Synergies: Atoms of Brain and Behavior. In: Sternad, D. (eds) Progress in Motor Control. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 629. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77064-2_5
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