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A mass assembly of associative mechanisms: A dynamical systems account of natural social interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Nicholas D. Duran ,
Rick Dale  and
Daniel C. Richardson
Nicholas D. Duran
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100. nicholas.duran@asu.eduhttp://dynamicog.org
Rick Dale
Affiliation:
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Cognitive & Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343. rdale@ucmerced.eduhttp://cognaction.org
Daniel C. Richardson
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. dcr@eyethink.orghttp://eyethink.org
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Abstract

The target article offers a negative, eliminativist thesis, dissolving the specialness of mirroring processes into a solution of associative mechanisms. We support the authors' project enthusiastically. What they are currently missing, we argue, is a positive, generative thesis about associative learning mechanisms and how they might give way to the complex, multimodal coordination that naturally arises in social interaction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 198
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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