The sociological domain is different from the psychological one insofar as meaning can be communicated at the supra-individual level (Schütz, 1932; Luhmann, 1984). The computation of anticipatory systems enables us to distinguish between these domains in terms of weakly and strongly anticipatory systems with a structural coupling between them (Maturana, 1978). Anticipatory systems have been def...

Infants at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may have difficulty integrating smiles into initiating joint attention (IJA) bids. A specific IJA pattern, anticipatory smiling, may communicate preexisting positive affect when an infant smiles at an object and then turns the smile toward the social partner. We compared the development of anticipatory smiling at 8, 10, and 12 months in infant...

The goal of this research was to assess the effect of syllable structure and stop place on the strength of bidirectional coarticulation in VCV utterances. Frequencies of F2 transitions were measured at VC and CV boundaries in open (V.CV) and closed (VC.V) syllable forms in five speakers of American English. Medial stops varied across place and voicing (/bpdtgk/). Carryover and anticipatory coar...

This paper presents an adaptive anticipatory synchronization based method for simultaneous identification of topology and parameters of uncertain nonlinearly coupled complex dynamical networks with time delays. An adaptive controller is proposed, based on Lyapunov stability theorem and Barbǎlat's Lemma, to guarantee the stability of the anticipatory synchronization manifold between drive and re...

Growing pervasiveness and personalisation of mobile computing devices, have raised the need for their autonomous, yet intelligent proactive actioning. Such a functioning encapsulated in the concept of anticipatory computing has been a subject of academic research for more than thirty years. Yet, before the recent advances in ubiquitous computing, anticipatory computing remained confined primari...

This guideline provides an approach to the prevention and treatment of anticipatory chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in children. It was developed by an international, inter-professional panel using AGREE II methods and is based on systematic literature reviews. Evidence-based recommendations for pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to prevent and treat anticipat...

The authors investigated the role of food incentive properties and homeostatic state on the motivational, anticipatory, and consummatory aspects of feeding. Behavioral tests were carried out on food-sated and food-restricted rats that were presented with 2 kinds of food differing in their palatability level. Both food-sated and food-restricted rats consumed large quantities and were highly moti...

We report that transfer entropy estimates obtained from low-resolution and/or small data sets show net information flow away from a purely anticipatory element whereas transfer entropy calculated using exact distributions show the flow towards it. This means that for real-world data sets anticipatory elements can appear to be strongly driving the network dynamics even when there is no possibili...

From information security engineering and software engineering aspects, a new-generation reactive system, named Anticipatory Reasoning-Reacting System, was proposed earlier. To construct this proactive system, we start with a more comprehensive description of general anticipatory systems. And based on this description, we further clarify what kind of systems we intend to implement. With the cla...

Closed head injured patients demonstrated greater anticipatory behaviour deficit than cerebral vascular accident patients on a shuttlebox-analog avoidance task, even though these two groups did not differ on escape behaviour and on performance on the individual tests of the Halstead-Reitan Battery and Wechsler scales. Neither clarification of instructions, additional trials, nor enhancement of ...