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Integration and Segregation of Perceptual and Motor Behavior

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Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems ((UCS))

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We are developing a conceptual framework that provides a general basis for the dynamic grouping of individual components. Perceptual grouping is the process by which raw elements are aggregated into larger and more meaningful collections (Feldman, 1999). The emergence and disappearance of such a group has been termed differently in different areas of Science and Philosophy, such as integration and segregation, convergence and divergence, binding and loss thereof. We wish to widen the notion of grouping by viewing motor processes and perceptual processes induced by sensory information as equivalent events over time defined in their appropriate spaces (Kelso et al., 1990). Many operational formalisms for the treatment of the temporal relationship of typically two or four coupled sensorimotor components have been developed within the field of coordination dynamics (see Kelso, 1995 for a review). Within the domain of visual (Feldman, 1999), auditory (Bregman, 1990) and multi-sensory perception (Stein & Meredith, 1993), numerous systematic studies have been performed identifying parameters and conditions under which the formation of percepts changes. Less frequently, the interdependence of percept formation and motor trajectory formation has been studied (Bogaerts et al., 2003). In the current chapter we wish to identify the mutual features and factors determining percept and motor trajectory formation. Here grouping can impose decisive influences on other low-level processes resulting in different percepts, e.g. lightness perception (Gilchrist, 1977), and different movement patterns, e.g. reduced reaction times (Davis, 1959).

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Jirsa, V.K., Kelso, J.A.S. (2004). Integration and Segregation of Perceptual and Motor Behavior. In: Jirsa, V.K., Kelso, J.A.S. (eds) Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39676-5_13

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