Differences in brain function as child develops

Working Brain p. 32 Basic perception early


"The yong child thinks in terms of visual forms of perception and memory and thinks by recollecting. At later stages or in adult life, the aid of the functions of abstraction and generalization is so highly developed that even relatively simple processes such as perception and memory are converted into complex forms of logical analysis and synthesis, and the person actually begins to perceive or recollect by reflection."

In "dynamic" Soviet neuropsychology, a lesion of "elementary" cortex such as visual cortex early in life produces more profound changes than later in life because it will affect the "higher areas" above development if it occurs early.

Revision of the concept of "symptom" p. 34

"In order to progress from the establishment of a symptom (loss of a given function) to the localization of a given activity, a long road has to be travelled...the detailed psychological analysis of the structure of the disturbance and the elucidation of the immediate causes of the collapse of the functional system or in other words, a detailed qualification of the symptom observed."