?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Microgenesis%2C+immediate+experience+and+visual+processes+in+reading&rft.creator=Rosenthal%2C+Victor&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Biophysics&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Neurophysiology&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.description=The+concept+of+microgenesis+refers+to+the+development+on+a+brief+present-time+scale+of+a+percept%2C+a+thought%2C+an+object+of+imagination%2C+or+an+expression.+It+defines+the+occurrence+of+immediate+experience+as+dynamic+unfolding+and+differentiation+in+which+the+%E2%80%98germ%E2%80%99+of+the+final+experience+is+already+embodied+in+the+early+stages+of+its+development.+Immediate+experience+typically+concerns+the+focal+experience+of+an+object+that+is+thematized+as+a+%E2%80%98figure%E2%80%99+in+the+global+field+of+consciousness%3B+this+can+involve+a+percept%2C+thought%2C+object+of+imagination%2C+or+expression+(verbal+and%2For+gestural).+Yet%2C+whatever+its+modality+or+content%2C+focal+experience+is+postulated+to+develop+and+stabilize+through+dynamic+differentiation+and+unfolding.+Such+a+microgenetic+description+of+immediate+experience+substantiates+a+phenomenological+and+genetic+theory+of+cognition+where+any+process+of+perception%2C+thought%2C+expression+or+imagination+is+primarily+a+process+of+genetic+differentiation+and+development%2C+rather+than+one+of+detection+(of+a+stimulus+array+or+information)%2C+transformation%2C+and+integration+(of+multiple+primitive+components)+as+theories+of+cognitivist+kind+have+contended.%0AMy+purpose+in+this+essay+is+to+provide+an+overview+of+the+main+constructs+of+microgenetic+theory%2C+to+outline+its+potential+avenues+of+future+development+in+the+field+of+cognitive+science%2C+and+to+illustrate+an+application+of+the+theory+to+research%2C+using+visual+processes+in+reading+as+an+example.+&rft.publisher=Kluver&rft.contributor=Carsetti%2C+Arturo&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2489%2F1%2FMicroRead.pdf&rft.identifier=++Rosenthal%2C+Victor++(2002)+Microgenesis%2C+immediate+experience+and+visual+processes+in+reading.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2489%2F