In Search for a Dialectical Methodology in Neuropsychology: Approaching Psychic Processes Through Their Phylogenetic History of Rising in Contradictions

Leonard Nigrini, Federica Amici, Miquel Llorente, Comparative Minds Research Group, Departament de Psicologia, Universitat de Girona, Human Biology and Primate Cognition, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Leipzig University, Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Culture & Psychology

Published online on March 11, 2026

Abstract

Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
Neuroscience is increasingly assuming a leading role within modern psychology (Maiers, 2008). By establishing a monist materialist worldview it overcomes the historically predominant idealism of psychoanalysis (Vygotsky, 1986, p. 225). However, many ...