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Principal topics of research
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Presentation & Content
Presentation of the principal subjects of research relating to psyche and human behavior.
Summary
The principal topics of research relate to epistemology, the phenomenon of emergence, the psychobiological needs, the information processing, the learning of the behaviors and the psychic dynamics.
Plan of the chapter
A - General topic : Psychobiology of human behavior
The general objective of this systemic and interdisciplinary research task is to define, on the basis of the latest knowledge in neurosciences, a system of psychobiological explanatory hypotheses of the processes underlying human behavior.
B - Principal topics
The principal topics of research have as an aim, on the one hand, epistemology, and, on the other hand, what seems to be the key factors of the ontogenesis and the dynamics of the behaviors :
Epistemology
Fundamental topic : Epistemological and methodological preliminaries
Study and definition of an epistemological and methodological framework adapted to this systemic and interdisciplinary research : 1- Critically analysis of the scientific processes ; and 2- Proposal for a new scientific field specific to the hypercomplex subjects.
(cf. chapter "Epistemology")
Behavior
First topic : Structural emergentism
Study of the "emergence" phenomenon, which would make it possible to clarify the material and structural causes of the appearance of increasingly complex properties : atomic, molecular, cellular, physiological, electrophysiological, neurobiological, psychological and sociological properties.
(cf. chapter "Emergence")
Second topic : Psychobiological needs
Study and characterisation of the human organism "needs", at the physiological, neurobiological and psychological level : "somatic" needs (nutrition, breathing, ...), "neurostructural" needs (sleep, ...) and "psychic" needs (affective, ...).
(cf. chapter "Needs")
Third topic : Information processing
Study of the anatomo-functional characteristics of the central nervous system which would be at the origin of the emergence of the neurophysiological processes of information processing : reflex, association, reinforcement, motivation, attention, categorisation, planning, ...
(cf. chapter "Cognition")
Fourth topic : Development and acquisition of complex behaviors
Study, during the development, of the gradual learning dynamics of the most complex behaviours : Communication ("developmental" acquisition) ; Aggression, Parental and Sexual ("circumstantial" acquisition) ; Speach and Socialisation ("cultural" acquisition).
(cf. chapter "Behaviors")
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