Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

PhD – Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University (1995). I am interested in human cognition as arising from interactions with others, situated in the world. I think that at the heart of cognitive phenomena (and of building successful explanations of them) lies the problem of the relation between dynamic and symbolic aspects of cognition. I study human language as a particularly good manifestation of this problem, trying to employ three approaches that seem most promising: ecological psychology, dynamical systems and semiotics.