Publications

By Richard H. Pfau Preface As its title indicates, this is a concise guide aimed at helping you to understand and change your behavior. In contrast to many publications, what follows is based on a […]

Bartley J. Madden Conventional psychology says your brain fits stimuli into a symbolic map of the world and calculates actions in response, an idea established in the early days of computers. But actually, even a […]

Martin Taylor Outline: Human Data Fusion 1. Introduction to concepts of Perceptual Control Theory.2. The Perceptual Control Hierarchy: Conflict and Learning.3. Information overload and modes of human perception.4. Side Effects of Perceptual Control: Stealth and […]

Warren Mansell

About Bill Powers Contents Page Foreword In 1979, Bill Powers wrote a prophecy: “A scientific revolution is just around the corner, and anyone with a personal computer can participate in it…. [T]he particular subject matter […]

Martin M. Taylor (1995) Fitting data to models, Presentation to CSG 2005

Martin Taylor (1993) OCR from scan of South African Journal of Psychology, 1973, 3, 23-45 M.M.TAYLOR. DCIEM, Box 2000, Downsview, Ontario ABSTRACT In J. G. Taylor’s Behavioural Theory of Perception there is a problem in […]

Robert Griffiths, Vyv Huddy, Stuart Eaton, Jasmine Waldorf, Warren Mansell ABSTRACT This book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour – Perceptual Control Theory – can be configured to create mental health […]

Martin Taylor (1992) Principles for intelligent human-computer interaction: a tutorial on layered protocol theory., DCIEM Report 93-32, Dept. Nat. Defence Canada.

Martin Taylor (2005) In a 2005 presentation to the CSGnet Annual Meeting, I argued that protocols and collective control allow for the creation of organisations that are control systems, complete and entire, with people as […]

William T. Powers

Samuel Bagno ©1955 IRE (now IEEE). Reprinted, with permission, from IRE Convention Record, 1955 Part 4 “Computers, Information Theory, Automatic Control.This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Internal or personal use of […]

Second volume of the Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory: Living in the Loop. Edited by Warren Mansell, Eva de Hullu, Vyv Huddy and Tom Scholte. Elsevier, 2023. […]

William T. Powers

Warren Mansell

Warren Mansell First published: 17 March 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01140.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01140.x

Franz Mechsner, Dirk Kerzel, Günther Knoblich & Wolfgang Prinz Mechsner, F., Kerzel, D., Knoblich, G. et al. Perceptual basis of bimanual coordination. Nature 414, 69–73 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35102060 https://www.nature.com/articles/35102060

Warren Mansell When people feel like they aren’t in control of their lives, or they become too controlling, this can cause psychological problems. ASK expert in Perceptual Control Theory, Dr Warren Mansell, why finding the […]

Lydia Morrisa, Karina Lovellb, Phil McEvoyc, Richard Emsleyd, Lesley-Anne Cartere, Dawn Edgea, Rachel Batesc, Tanya Wallworkc and Warren Mansel In an RCT, the Take Control Course for up to 20 adults (transdiagnostic & based on […]

Marc Schwartz and Philip M. Sadler http://www.project2061.org/events/meetings/technology/tech2/schwartz-sadler.htm

William T. Powers (2009) We hear quite a lot about models such as weather models which can be used to predict what will happen in the next few days, or models of colliding galaxies which […]