Materials describing various applications of PCT, ordered in themes
Papers
Phil McNamee applies PCT to insight learning
`‘EUREKA!’ Published on PCTweb 20th June 2011
Themes
Biology & Neuroscience
William T. Powers critic of Optimal Control Theory
William T. Powers (2011)
Psychology & Mental Health
Control Theory & Experimental Psychology
Richard Marken (2010)
Psychology & Mental Health
Seeing oneself in one’s choices: Construal level and self-pertinence of electoral and consumer decisions
Antonio L. Freitas, Karen L. Langsam, Sheri Clark, Scott J. Moeller (2008)
Books
Living Control Systems III – The Fact of Control
Book + demonstration programs by William T. Powers (2008) Living Control Systems III continues Powers’ revolutionary approach to understanding living organisms as purposeful agents whose actions serve to control their environments. A unique feature of […]
Biology & Neuroscience
When Outgoing and Incoming Signals Meet:
New Insights from the Zona Incerta
Mathew E. Diamond, and Ehud Ahissar Open Archive DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.11.006 https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(07)00871-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627307008719%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Education
Teacher Adoption of Technology: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective
GARY A. CZIKO (2001) Teacher Adoption of Technology: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective.
Other
Journal on Perceptual Control Theory Vol 1 No 1, 1999
Towards a control model of object recognition R.Young and J. Illingworth
Other
Journal on Perceptual Control Theory Vol 1 No 1, 1999
Control of a multi-legged robot based on hierarchical PCT Richard Kennaway
Biology & Neuroscience
Control Systems With a Priori Intentions Register Environmental Disturbances A Posteriori
Wayne A. Hershberger (1998)
Education
An Expanded Control Model for the Use of Instructional Feedback
Hancock Thomas E., Thurman Richard A., and Hubbard David C. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0361476X85710284
Bill Powers
An “Artificial Cerebellum” Adaptive Stabilization of a Control System
William T. Powers Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Perceptual Control TheoryGregynog, The University of Wales23rd – 27th June 1994
Bill Powers
Objections to PCT Answered – “The Devil´s Bibliography”
DEVIL’S .BIB Misunderstandings and distortions. See DISPUTE.PCT Unedited posts from archives of CSG-L (see INTROCSG.NET): This thread deals with myths, misunderstandings, and distortions offeedback, cybernetics and PCT. The term Devil’s Bibliography was suggested and stuck. […]
Biology & Neuroscience
A Control System Approach to Cardiovascular Reactivity: Behavioral Models That Behave
Raymond Pavloski (1989) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1989.tb01953.x
Economics & Marketing
An Integrated Control Theory Model of Work Motivation
Howard J. Klein Abstract A model that integrates several different motivational theories and previous control theory models is presented as a possible metatheory to focus future theoretical and empirical efforts. The proposed model is dynamic, […]
Biology & Neuroscience
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR: HIERARCHY OF
FEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND CONTROL OF
INPUT
A. R. Cools
Education
A control systems conceptualization of the goal-setting and changing process
Michael A.Campion and Robert G. Lord https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0030507382902215
Bill Powers
Powers (1978) in Psychological Review – Evidence for PCT over Stimulus-Response approaches
“Quantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadework at the Foundations of Scientific Psychology“ William T. Powers Psychological Review, 1978, Vol. 85, No. 5, 417-435
Psychology & Mental Health
Quantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadeworkat the Foundations of Scientific Psychology
William T. Powers (1978)