Presents new scientific perspectives on the mind and brain, challenging the ubiquitous but potentially limited 'mind as computer' metaphor.
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Damian G. Kelty-Stephen is an Assistant Professor at the Psychology Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He has previously worked as a research scientist at Harvard Medical School's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and as a faculty member in the Psychology Department at Grinnell College. Damien's research interests include perception-action relationships, embodied/embedded cognition, and the nonlinear dynamics that link them together.
Madhur Mangalam is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Biomechanics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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