Self-directedness, integration and higher cognition

Self-directedness, integration and higher cognition

In this paper I discuss connections between self-directedness, integration and higher cognition. I present a model of self-directedness as a basis for approaching higher cognition from a situated cognition perspective. According to this model increases in sensorimotor complexity create pressure for integrative higher order control and learning processes for acquiring information about the conte...

Self-directedness: a process approach to cognition

Standard approaches to cognition emphasise structures (representations and rules) much more than processes, in part because this appears to be necessary to capture the normative features of cognition. However the resultant models are inflexible and face the problem of computational intractability. I argue that the ability of real world cognition to cope with complexity results from deep and sub...

Self-Directedness and Cooperativeness, Psychosocial Dysfunction and Suffering in ESSENCE

BACKGROUND The acronym ESSENCE (Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations) highlights that children seeking clinical treatment are often multiply impaired, thus requiring treatment from several specialties. The aim was to map and relate, on a population level, ESSENCE to two salient predictors of health and adaptation to adversities, namely, Self-Directednes...

Self-Directedness and Resoluteness. The Two Dimensions of Autonomy

Computational Models of Higher Cognition

Models in cognitive science span all three of Marr’s (1982) levels (see Holyoak & Morrison, Chapter 1). Normative systems (see Chater & Oaksford, Chapter 2), including the Bayesian framework (see Griffi ths et al., Chapter 3), address the level of computational theory; neural models (see Morrison & Knowlton, Chapter 6) are specifi ed at the implementation level; and informationprocessing models...