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Previous chapters have all developed in different ways the core idea that cognition is information processing. This chapter looks at a very different approach, using dynamical systems theory's mathematical and conceptual tools to model cognitive skills and abilities. The first section explains how how dynamical systems theory can describe cognitive skills and abilities without using the framework of representation and information processing. The second section examines how dynamical systems theory explains two examples of child development, with particular attention to the time-sensitive nature of the dynamic system theory in these examples.
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