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HomePCTBill PowersBill Powers on Perceptual Control Theory

Bill Powers on Perceptual Control Theory

April 16, 2022 Dag Forssell Bill Powers, Introduction, Papers, PCT

William T. Powers

About Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), some history, status, and what you will experience when studying PCT. Highlights from an introductory essay William T. (Bill) Powers wrote in May, 1980

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William T. Powers & Philip J. Runken Throughout this volume, Phil and Bill exchange candid assessments of the players, methods and dominant approaches in psychology and the social sciences, and the difficulties that go with […]

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Control of Perception Should be Operationalized as a Fundamental Property of the Nervous System

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