Books
Doing Research on Purpose
Richard S. Marken (2014) The core of the book are six papers by Dr. Richard S. Marken which have been published in peer reviewed journals over the past decade explaining why Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) […]
science
Biology & Neuroscience
Behavioral Variability in the Service of Constancy
Bell, Heather Christine Journal: International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 27(2)Permalink: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ch4g2x6ISSN 0889-3675Publication Date 2014DOI 10.46867/ijcp.2014.27.02.02 Copyright InformationCopyright 2014 by the author(s).This work is made available under the terms of a CreativeCommons Attribution License, available at […]
Biology & Neuroscience
How Basal Ganglia Outputs Generate Behavior
Henry H. Yin
Biology & Neuroscience
Motor-Sensory Confluence in Tactile Perception
Avraham Saig,* Goren Gordon,* Eldad Assa, Amos Arieli, and Ehud Ahissar 14022 • The Journal of Neuroscience, October 3, 2012 • 32(40):14022–14032 https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/40/14022.short
Introduction
How Can Perceptual Control Theory Enhance the Practice of Psychological Therapies? A working Bibliography
Assembled by Sarah Alsawy & Warren Mansell (August 2012) Historical and Philosophical Context lntegrative & Transdiagnostic Theoretical articles PCT, Core Processes, Goal Conflict and Mental Health – Research Studies Method of Levels – lntroductory articles […]
Method of Levels
Crisis intervention in Mental Health settings based on PCT
Mark Lazare (April 2012)
Bill Powers
Discussion between Steven Hayes and Bill Powers (2011)
Hello, all — Attached is a nice article by Fred Nichols (http://www.nickols.us/ManageYOP.pdf) who is a management consultant and a long-time CSG (control system group) member. It has a bearing on the difference between ACT (Steve […]
Bill Powers
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Applied to
Personality, Psychotherapy,
and Psychopathology
David M. Goldstein, John White, & William T. Powers (Dec 2011)
Papers
Phil McNamee applies PCT to insight learning
`‘EUREKA!’ Published on PCTweb 20th June 2011
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
Biology & Neuroscience
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR: HIERARCHY OF
FEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND CONTROL OF
INPUT
A. R. Cools
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
Bill Powers
Behavior: The Control of Perception
William T. Powers Preface This book represents, I hope, a step on the path back to a concept of man as autonomous, and away from the concept of man as automaton. Yet in allowing my […]