Ambiguity in mind and nature. Multistable cognitive phenomena. International symposium on Perceptual multistability and semantic ambiguity, University of Bremen, Germany, March 22--25, 1993 (Q1373662)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] Contents: \textit{G. Roth}, Introduction; \textit{M. Stadler} and \textit{P. Kruse}, The function of meaning in cognitive order formation; \textit{H. Haken}, Some basic concepts of synergetics with respect to multistability in perception, phase transitions and formation of meaning; \textit{G. Kanizsa} and \textit{R. Luccio}, Multistability as a research tool in experimental phenomenology; \textit{P. Kruse}, \textit{D. Strüber} and \textit{M. Stadler}, The significance of perceptual multistability for research on cognitive self-organization; \textit{C. van Leeuwen}, Task, intention, context, globality, ambiguity: More of the same; \textit{A. C. Zimmer}, Multistability -- more than just a freak phenomenon; \textit{R. Haas}, \textit{A. Fuchs}, \textit{H. Haken}, \textit{E. Horvath}, \textit{A. S. Pandya} and \textit{J. A. S. Kelso}, Recognition of dynamic patterns by a synergetic computer; \textit{J. A. S. Kelso}, \textit{P. Case}, \textit{T. Holroyd}, \textit{E. Horvath}, \textit{J. Rączaszek}, \textit{B. Tuller} and \textit{M. Ding}, Multistability and metastability in perceptual and brain dynamics; \textit{G. Vetter}, Self-organizational processes in animal cognition; \textit{H. Schwegler}, Dynamic models of psychological systems; \textit{W. Wildgen}, Ambiguity in linguistic meaning in relation to perceptual multistability; \textit{A. Vukovich}, The emergence of meaning by linguistic problem solving; \textit{T. Ditzinger} and \textit{H. Haken}, A synergetic model of multistability in perception; \textit{G. Schöner} and \textit{H. Hock}, Concepts for a dynamic theory of perceptual organization: An example from apparent movement; \textit{H. H. Szu}, \textit{F. Lu} and \textit{J. S. Landa}, Artificial neural networks and Haken's synergetic computer: A hybrid approach for solving bistable reversible figures; \textit{H.-O. Carmesin}, Multistability in geometrical imagination: A network study; \textit{M. Schürmann}, \textit{C. Başar-Eroglu}, \textit{T. Demiralp} and \textit{E. Başar}, A psychophysiological interpretation of theta and delta responses in cognitive event-related potential paradigms; \textit{C. Başar-Eroglu}, \textit{D. Strüber}, \textit{M. Stadler}, \textit{P. Kruse} and \textit{F. Greitschus}, Slow positive potentials in the EEG during multistable visual perception; \textit{D. Lehmann}, Brain electric microstates, and cognitive and perceptual modes; \textit{W. J. Freeman}, The creation of perceptual meanings in cortex through chaotic itinerancy and sequential state transitions induced by sensory stimuli; \textit{P. J. Plath} and \textit{C. Stadler}, Multistability in molecules and reactions; \textit{G. Caglioti}, Perception of ambiguous figures: A qualitative model based on synergetics and quantum mechanics.