The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory

<p>Part I</p> <p>Why do we need perceptual control theory?</p> <p>1. The world according to PCT</p> <p>2. Understanding purposeful systems: the application</p> <p>of control theory in engineering and psychology</p> <p>3. The crisis in neuroscience</p> <p>4. When causation does not imply correlation: robust</p> <p>violations of the faithfulness axiom</p> <p>Part II</p> <p>Models of brain and behavior</p> <p>5. Unraveling the dynamics of dyadic interactions:</p> <p>perceptual control in animal contests</p> <p>6. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: Structuring</p> <p>for Perceptual Results</p> <p>7. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: input and</p> <p>output functions</p> <p>8. The phylogeny, ontogeny, causation and function of</p> <p>regression periods explained by reorganizations of the</p> <p>hierarchy of perceptual control systems</p> <p>Part III</p> <p>Collective control and communication</p> <p>9. Social structure and control: perceptual control theory</p> <p>and the science of sociology</p> <p>10. Perceptual control in cooperative interaction</p> <p>11. Language and thought as control of perception</p> <p>Part IV</p> <p>Applications</p> <p>12. Perceptions of control theory in</p> <p>industrial-organizational psychology: disturbances</p> <p>and counter-disturbances</p> <p>13. Method of Levels Therapy</p> <p>14. Robotics in the real world: the perceptual control</p> <p>theory approach</p> <p>15. PCT and beyond: toward a computational framework</p> <p>for ‘intelligent’ communicative systems</p> <p>Part V</p> <p>Synthesis</p> <p>16. Ten vital elements of perceptual control theory,</p> <p>tracing the pathway from implicit influence to</p> <p>scientific advance</p>