Cognitive Microgenesis A Neuropsychological Perspective

Presents experimental methodology, neuropsychological interpretations, and clinical applications of cognitive microgenesis theory along with research findings on visual information processing, anxiety, defense, attention, and personality assessment.

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Cognitive Microgenesis A Neuropsychological Perspective

Foreword by Anne Harrington

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Robert E. Hanlon Departments of Rehabilitation and Neuropsychology University of California at Los Angeles 300 U.C.L.A. Medical Plaza, BlOO Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cognitive microgenesis: a neuropsychological perspective / Robert E. Hanlon, editor. p. cm. - (Springer series in neuropsychology) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-13:978-1-4612-7778-1 e-ISBN-13:978-1-4612-3056-4 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3056-4 1. Brain-Evolution. 2. Brain-Growth. 3. Neuropsychology. 4. Cognitive science. I. Hanlon, Robert E. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Cognition. 2. Neuropsychology. WL 103 C676j QP376.C58 1991 612.8'2-dc20 90-10408 Printed on acid-free paper. ©1991 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone. Typeset by Best-set Typesetters, Ltd., Chai Wan, Hong Kong.

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Foreword

If scientific research traditions can be awarded philosophical epitaphs, perhaps an appropriately suggestive one for microgenesis would be Heraclitus's classic statement: "We step and we do not step into the same river, we are and we are not." For this is the heart, it seems to me, of the challenge microgenesis aims to confront: In what sense is the brain as an object of scientific