We are all set for today and looking forward to a vibrant and diverse conference this year! @cybsoc @NewBooksSystems @Malcolm_Ocean @njodal @_RobGriffiths @MNWH @salgado_mat @EliSennesh @bbenzon @micahgallen @behaviOrganisms @stevebattle @HenryYin19 @mickcooper77 @adamsafron

Perceptual Control Theory - systems thinking from the inside out bsky.app/profile/iapct.bsky.…

Paul Cisek endorses William Powers’ Perceptual Control Theory. Powers critiques Skinner’s behaviouralist system: it’s not just 1 way (reinforcements control behaviour), it’s a circuit/loop where behaviour controls reinforcements which influence behaviour. youtu.be/yeZjwdx30ys?feature…

Interesting. I like the general idea of "perceptual control theory", which says we control our bodies to meet our perceptual goals; e.g., the reaching task has a goal of seeing our hand reach the cup and feeling it in our hand. The problem is how to specify that in the context of RL or some other optimization formulation, which is essentially what your work addresses.

blew my mind when I opened The Wonder Weeks and was like "holy shit these are precisely the Perceptual Control Theory stages" (similar to predictive processing) I've loved PCT since 2017—it was fun to see it show up in the wild (well, a dev psych book 😅)

Available once more! Reasonably priced, the core text of perceptual control theory: amazon.com/Behavior-Control-…

Perceptual Control Theory A Model for Understanding the Mechanisms and Phenomena of Control – Powers et al (2011) buff.ly/47zxJYs

Simulating the human-building interaction: Development and validation of an agent-based model of of ce occupant behaviors bsky.app/profile/iapct.bsky.…

My presentation on evolving perceptual control hierarchies for wind turbine control as well as a discussion of the ARC environment as a platform for multi-level PCT research. patreon.com/posts/119936911 @iapct @warrenmansell #evolution #robotics #behaviour #perceptualcontroltheory

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Pleased to share a new collaborative paper, led by @PsychScientists, on predictive control versus prospective control in the cognitive (neuro) sciences: “Predictive vs. prospective control: Clarifying the terms of the debate” osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ce… 1/3

In particular, we discuss three notions of predictive control (from perception-action, predictive processing, and the free energy principle) and two notions of prospective control (from perceptual control theory and ecological psychology). Hope you find it helpful! 3/3

Alternative to the above inverse kinematics computational paradigm, perceptual control theory is used to solve the problem of movement in robotics: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

The 34th #IAPCT2024 Conference, hosted by @CurtinUni, wraps up today after three days of global collaboration on topics like pilot training, infant development, consciousness and deradicalisation. Thanks to all who contributed! Learn more. 👉 iapct.org

Financial self-efficacy, visual attention, and performance in equity crowdfunding: An eye-tracking experiment. …the findings contribute to the debate between social control theory and perceptual control theory, providing support for the latter. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-…

Great conversations about Method of Levels (MOL) and Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) at the 34th IAPCT Pre-Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina! MOL practice with clinicians was a hit. Can’t wait for the main Conference in November! iapct.org/events/2024-confer… @iapct

Iconic models in science and psychology Excellent illustration of how diagrams can shift the perspective - in perceptual control theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

It is satisfying to hear the experiences of carers in this contemporary, PCT-informed intervention…

@thedankoe have you explored Perceptual Control Theory (PCT)? @iapct

Expansion of Powers' Perceptual Cybernetics Huaxia Yan philarchive.org/archive/YANE…

Standard model of the mind and perceptual control theory – A theoretical comparison between two layouts for cognitive architectures Anni-Emilia Huuhtanen helda.helsinki.fi/server/api…