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Theory and mathematics in building dynamic systems models: what prevails? A reply to van der Maas and Raijmakers
Author(s) -
Kunnen E. Saskia,
Olthof Tjeert,
Boom Jan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
infant and child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.87
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1522-7219
pISSN - 1522-7227
DOI - 10.1002/1522-7219(200006)9:2<85::aid-icd215>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - boom , library science , citation , psychology , media studies , sociology , computer science , engineering , environmental engineering
In their commentary, van der Maas and Raijmakers (2000) made three main points that will be discussed in this paper. The first point concerns the criticisms that they raised against our connectionist model. We discuss their second point, criticisms of the logistic growth model, in conjunction with their phase transition model. Finally, we discuss the third issue of whether it is possible to draw general conclusions with regard to the behaviour of different dynamical systems models.