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While many computer demonstrations of principles have been developed, the proposed higher levels are difficult to model because too little is known about how the brain works at these levels. Isolated higher-level control processes can be investigated, but models of an extensive hierarchy of control are still only conceptual, or at best rudimentary.

Perceptual control theory has not been widely accepted in mainstream psychology, but has been effectively used in a considerable range of domains<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-28/november-2015/perceptual-control-revolution |title = A perceptual control revolution? |website=The Psychologist}}</ref><ref name="IJHCS">The June 1999 Issue of ''The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies'' contained papers ranging from tracking through cockpit layout to self-image and crowd dynamics.</ref> in human factors,<ref name="CBUT">PCT lies at the foundation of [[Component-Based Usability Testing]].</ref> clinical psychology, and psychotherapy (the "[[Method of Levels]]"), it is the basis for a considerable body of research in sociology,<ref>For example: McClelland, Kent A. and Thomas J. Fararo, eds. 2006, ''Purpose, Meaning and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology'', New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (McClelland is co-author of Chapter 1, "Control Systems Thinking in Sociological Theory," and author of Chapter 2, "Understanding Collective Control Processes."). McClelland, Kent, 2004, "Collective Control of Perception: Constructing Order from Conflict", ''International Journal of Human-Computer Studies'' 60:65-99. McPhail, Clark. 1991, ''The myth of the madding crowd'' New York: Aldine de Gruyter.</ref> and it has formed the conceptual foundation for the reference model used by a succession of [[NATO]] research study groups.<ref name="IST">volume-28november-2015 Reports of these groups are available from the [[NATO Research and Technology Administration]] publications page: {{cite web |url=http://www.rta.nato.int/Abstracts.aspx |title=NATO Research & Technology Organisation Scientific Publications |access-date=2010-05-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623055236/http://www.rta.nato.int/abstracts.aspx |archive-date=2010-06-23 }}> under the titles RTO-TR-030, RTO-TR-IST-021, and RTO-TR-IST-059.</ref> It is being taught in several universities worldwide and is the subject of a number of PhD dissertations.<ref>{{cite web |last=Heylighen |first=Francis |title=The Economy as a Distributed, Learning Control System |url=http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/MarketCo.html}}</ref>

Recent approaches use principles of perceptual control theory to provide new algorithmic foundations for [[artificial intelligence]] and [[machine learning]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Monaco |first1=Joseph D. |last2=Hwang |first2=Grace M. |title=Neurodynamical Computing at the Information Boundaries of Intelligent Systems |journal=Cognitive Computation |date=27 December 2022 |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1007/s12559-022-10081-9|s2cid=255222711 |doi-access=free |pmid=39129840 |pmc=11306504 }}</ref>