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microgenetic method

a research methodology for studying cognitive developmental change, involving (a) observations of individual children throughout a period of change, (b) a high density of observations relative to the rate of change within that period, and (c) intensive trial-by-trial analyses intended to infer the processes that gave rise to the change. [developed by U.S. developmental psychologist Robert S. Siegler (1949–  )]

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corticostriatonigral degeneration

corticostriatonigral degeneration

see corticobasal ganglionic degeneration.