Dynamic Representations Guiding Adaptive Behavior

Abstract

(from the chapter) I will review empirical support for my theory of "dynamic mental representations" with a focus on the implicit perceptual knowledge we have of dynamics and biomechanical motion / I will suggest that time represents time, and that therefore the normal view that representations are in some way distinct from processes is incorrect / instead, I will argue, mental representations are an emergent property of processes unfolding over time / in this view, "representation" refers to the correspondence between internal and external information (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved)