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Coordination represents one of the most striking, most taken for granted, but least understood features of living things.�Recently a new foundation for understanding coordination has emerged called Coordination Dynamics. This book brings together scientists�from all over the world�who have defined and developed the field of Coordination Dynamics. Grounded in the concepts of self-organization and the tools of nonlinear dynamics, appropriately extended to handle informational aspects of living things, Coordination Dynamics aims to understand the coordinated functioning of a variety of different systems at multiple levels of description. The book addresses the themes of Coordination Dynamics and Dynamic Patterns in the context of the following topics: Coordination of Brain and Behavior, Perception-Action Coupling, Control, Posture, Learning, Intention, Attention, and Cognition.Typham this is the title: Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends 1st Edition