"perceptual control theory" meaning in All languages combined

See perceptual control theory on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} perceptual control theory (uncountable)
  1. A model of behavior, in numerous disparate fields, based on the properties of negative feedback control loops that maintain a sensed variable at or near a reference value by means of the effects of their outputs upon that variable, as mediated by physical properties of the environment. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: PCT [initialism]
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