William T. Powers
A hard-hitting essay by the creator of PCT on what you see when you look at behavior through the eyes of a physical scientist.
Bill Powers
The difference between causes and mechanisms of behavior
William T. Powers (2011) In PCT, we say that organisms learn control, not behavior. But the meaning of that isn’t self-evident — isn’t controlling also behaving? The organization of a control system, in most cases, […]
Biology & Neuroscience
Control of Perception Should be Operationalized as a Fundamental Property of the Nervous System
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
Biology & Neuroscience
A PCT account of the Basal Ganglia
Henry H. Yin (2016) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1073858416654115