Dear Warren,
Hi
J
yes, I’m a great admirer of Powers and his PCT. Someone mentioned PCT to me years ago, following one of my closed-loop oriented publications - I have read it
with enormous pleasure and since then every student entering my lab is oriented to his book or ‘73 paper…
My current paper, in addition to presenting a closed-loop hypothesis for perception (which is different than PCT but not unrelated), is also a kind of a call
for getting the closed-loop framework back to the front stage of neuroscience – but as you know, it is hard to shift the neuroscience wagon ffrom its track…
Will be happy to chat if we have a chance
Best, ehud
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From: Warren Mansell [mailto:wmansell@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 2:48 PM
To: Ehud Ahissar
Subject: Fwd: Scholar Alert - [ “powers 1973” ]
Dear Ehud,
I have seen your recent citation of Powers and taken a look at your publications. I would be interested in a pdf copy of the recent published article below.
I don’t know if you know but the particular implications of closed loop neuroscience - ‘behaviour as the control of perception’ - are the central tenet of Powers’ theory, and since 1973 the theory has been tested and utilises in many ways
that challenge the traditional S-R open loop approach. I manage a website
www.pctweb.org that links to the studies.
In particular there are neuroscience labs specialising in Powers’ closed loop model at Duke (Henry Yin), Lethbridge (Sergio Pellis) and Alicante (Alex Gomez-Marin).
I hope these resources interest you and I look forward to hearing from you,
Warren
Dr Warren Mansell
University of Manchester
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E Ahissar, E Assa - eLife, 2016
… dynamic theories 51 (Ahissar and Vaadia, 1990; Ashby, 1952; Kelso,
1997; O’Regan
and Noe, 2001; Port and Van 52 Gelder, 1995; Powers, 1973; Wiener, 1949) and,
in general, refers to the perception of external 53 objects as a …
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