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Neuropsychological assessment methodology revisited: metatheoretical reflections
Theory building in neuropsychology, similar to other disciplines, rests on metatheoretical assumptions of philosophical origin. Such assumptions regarding the relation of psychological and physiological variables influence research methodologies as well as assessment strategies in fields of appli...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2023
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| Zusammenfassung: | Theory building in neuropsychology, similar to other disciplines, rests on
metatheoretical assumptions of philosophical origin. Such assumptions regarding
the relation of psychological and physiological variables influence research
methodologies as well as assessment strategies in fields of application. Here,
we revisit the classic procedure of Double Dissociation (DD) to illustrate the
connection of metatheory and methodology. In a seemingly unbridgeable
opposition, the classical neuropsychological procedure of DD can be understood
as either presupposing localizationism and a modular view of the brain, or
as a special case of the generalized neuro-lens model for neuropsychological
assessment. In the latter case, it is more easily compatible with a perspective that
emphasizes the systemic-network, rather than the modular, nature of the brain,
which as part of the organism, proportionately mediates the situatedness of the
human being in the world. This perspective not only makes it possible to structure
ecological validation processes and give them a metatheoretical foundation, but
also to interlace it with the phenomenological insight that the laboratory as one
context of empirical research may be analyzed in terms of situated experience.
We conclude with showing that both the localizationist and the system science
approach can agree on a view of the brain as a dynamical network, and that
metatheory may thus offer important new perspectives of reconciliation. |
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| Beschreibung: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der UB Marburg. |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1170283 |