Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Theory
- Part II Method
- Part III Child
- Part IV Language and culture
- Part V Brain
- 13 There can be no culturalhistorical psychology without neuropsychology. And vice versa
- 14 Cultural-historical neuropsychological perspective on learning disability
- 15 Cultural-historical theory and cultural neuropsychology today
- Part VI Beyond psychology
- Index
13 - There can be no culturalhistorical psychology without neuropsychology. And vice versa
from Part V - Brain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Theory
- Part II Method
- Part III Child
- Part IV Language and culture
- Part V Brain
- 13 There can be no culturalhistorical psychology without neuropsychology. And vice versa
- 14 Cultural-historical neuropsychological perspective on learning disability
- 15 Cultural-historical theory and cultural neuropsychology today
- Part VI Beyond psychology
- Index
Summary
This chapter shows that Vygotsky-Luria's cultural-historical approach to neuropsychology is engaged with promises for many new discoveries that may lead to fundamental changes in our understanding of the human mind. Cultural-historical neuropsychology is an approach to studying higher psychological functions. Vygotsky-Luria's theory is based on the idea that specifically human higher psychological functions develop in the process of communication and material activity of a developing person in a socio-cultural environment. The chapter concludes that modern studies concentrate too much on single regions of the brain and/or on performance of isolated psychological tasks. Principles of systemic organization remain unrevealed by such studies. The developmental dynamics of the functional localization is even less well understood. The relation of the functional organization of the brain to the cultural environment needs to be studied.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology , pp. 315 - 349Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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