Purpose – This article aims to be an expository introduction to Robert Rosen’s anticipatory systems, the theory of which provides the conceptual basis for foresight studies. Design/methodology/approach – The ubiquity of anticipatory systems in nature is explained. Findings – Causality is not violated by anticipatory systems, and teleology is an integral aspect of science. Practical implications...

The majority of studies examining self-reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure in schizophrenia, as measured on the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS), have been conducted on chronically ill people with the disorder. In this study, people with a recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis (first psychotic episode within one year of study participation) (n=88) and people with...

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety during expectation of performance-related situations is an important feature of the psychopathology of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The neural basis of anticipatory anxiety in SAD has not been investigated in controlled studies. The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates during the anticipation of p...

Expectations about an upcoming emotional event have the power to shape one's subsequent affective response for better or worse. Here, we used mediation analyses to examine the relationship between brain activity when anticipating the need to cognitively reappraise aversive images, amygdala responses to those images and subsequent success in diminishing negative affect. We found that anticipator...

A new approach to anticipations is proposed – anticipation by analogy. Firstly, the role of selective attention was explored both with simulation data and psychological experiment. After that, the AMBR model for analogy-making has been extended with a simple anticipatory mechanism and is demonstrated how top-down perception and analogical transfer can both be based on one and the same anticipat...

Overview This paper outlines how anticipatory analytics might lead to active and real time knowledge representation and exchange. This is a theoretical paper, with potential for designing, building and deploying new social media equipped with knowledge generation, representation and transfer tools. Topic representation is in the form of the topic map standard. Topics are made objects of discuss...

Researchers interested in anticipatory discourse are, generally speaking, concerned with discourses in or about the future. They investigate how individuals, texts, or utterances project representations of future events, states, or relations. Unlike other areas of applied linguistics, the study of anticipatory discourse is still very much in its infancy. As yet, there is no set tradition or sch...

Anticipating the actions of others is key to coordinating joint activities. We propose the notion of anticipatory action and perception for for robots acting with humans. We describe four systems in which anticipation has been modeled for human-robot interaction; two in a teamwork setting, and two in a human-robot joint performance setting. In evaluating the effects of anticipatory agent activi...

Humans display anticipatory motor responses to minimize the adverse effects of predictable perturbations. A widely accepted explanation for this behaviour relies on the notion of an inverse model that, learning from motor errors, anticipates corrective responses. Here, we propose and validate the alternative hypothesis that anticipatory control can be realized through a cascade of purely sensor...

We argue that the introduction of memory imperfections into models of economic decision making creates a natural role for anticipatory emotions. The combination of memory imperfections and anticipatory emotions has striking behavioral implications. The first half of the paper shows that agents can rationally select dominated strategies. We consider two applications: Newcomb’s Paradox and the Pr...