J. A. Scott Kelso (1995), Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, xvii + 334 pp.
Key takeaways
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- Cited by De Jaegher & Di Paolo (LIT-571) for absolute versus relative coordination, with a quotation from p. 98: relative coordination is “far more variable, plastic and fluid… than pure phase locking”.
- Cited by Kelso 2021 (LIT-601) as the source of its Box 1 coordination potential, for the history of HKB (ch. 3), for metastability as the account of relative coordination, and for brain rhythms (ch. 8).
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-03 at the owner’s request, in the coordination-dynamics part of the agency batch. No anthology topic holds it, and it carries no instruction for machine-learning practice.
The owner’s rule for long books: look for a lawful full text; if there is none, read a shorter work by the same author that states the same theory, and file the book as a Deferred seed only if the record would lose something without it. No lawful text was found. The substitute read is Kelso’s own 2021 retrospective (LIT-601), which states the HKB model, its extensions and metastability. The book is kept because it is the standard citation for coordination dynamics, and two works filed in this batch cite it. A reader with the book should start with chapter 3, which Kelso 2021 names as the account of how HKB came about, and read the rest to see what the 2021 paper leaves out.
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