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Functional Systems and Culturally-Determined Cognitive Differences.
Wiseman, Richard L. – 1980
Noting that one means of better understanding the nature of cultural differences is to elucidate the cognitive differences between members of differing cultures, this paper examines Alexander Luria's sociohistorical theory of functional cognitive systems. The paper first describes Luria's notion of functional systems, the crux of which postulates…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Communication (Thought Transfer)