Dynamical structural science

Dynamical structural science.

Dynamical approaches to cognitive science.

Dynamical ideas are beginning to have a major impact on cognitive science, from foundational debates to daily practice. In this article, I review three contrasting examples of work in this area that address the lexical and grammatical structure of language, Piaget's classic 'A-not-B' error, and active categorical perception in an embodied, situated agent. From these three examples, I then attem...

Dynamical structural distributions in proteins

A moment analysis of the self-intermediate scattering function is used to reconstruct the distribution of structural displacements in the small protein myoglobin as a function of time, temperature and environment. Model-independent information is obtained on mean squared displacements and the Gauss-deviation. Two types of molecular motions were identified: rotational jumps of side chains and sm...

Nonlinear Science , Chaos and Dynamical Systems 2015

This is a collection of articles, many written by people who worked with Mandelbrot, memorializing the remarkable breadth and depth of his work in science and the arts. Contributors include mathematicians, physicists, biologists, economists, and engineers, as expected; and also artists, musicians, teachers, an historian, an architect, a filmmaker, and a comic. Some articles are quite technical,...

The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science.

According to the dominant computational approach in cognitive science, cognitive agents are digital computers; according to the alternative approach, they are dynamical systems. This target article attempts to articulate and support the dynamical hypothesis. The dynamical hypothesis has two major components: the nature hypothesis (cognitive agents are dynamical systems) and the knowledge hypoth...