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  • Soviet neuropsychologist Aleksandr Romanovich Luria with patients in the 1960s.
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    A related method, called linking or chaining, associates any pair of items—a pen and a chair, for example—and then links those items with a third, the chain proceeding indefinitely. Interaction, as opposed to mere association, is necessary—one could imagine the pen writing on the chair, for example—as one word…

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    A related method, called linking or chaining, associates any pair of items—a pen and a chair, for example—and then links those items with a third, the chain proceeding indefinitely. Interaction, as opposed to mere association, is necessary—one could imagine the pen writing on the chair, for example—as one word…

    Read More