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THE group or phylobiological researches which I have carried out in the field of behaviour-disorders indicate that the neuroses and psychoses are aggravations of discrepant processes existing within society generally. In connexion with investigations of adaptive reactions, I have differentiated two internal attentional patterns1: (1) The pattern concomitant to ordinary attention in which the individual focuses upon external objects or upon images or symbols relating to them ; (2) a pattern which I have distinguished as cotention, in which the individual focuses upon tensions located predominantly in the region of the eyes or in the segment of the symbolic activity.
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Reported in my book, "The Biology of Human Conflict—An Anatomy of Behavior, Individual and Social" (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937) (see NATURE, March 12, 1938, p. 462).
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BURROW, T. Kymograph Studies of Physiological (Respiratory) Concomitants in Two Types of Attentional Adaptation. Nature 142, 156 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142156a0
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