The influences of intentionality and effectiveness of adults’ behavior on infants’ imitation of object-related actions

Tatyana N. Kotova,

Alexey A. Kotov,

Tatyana O. Yudina

Published: Jan. 1, 2014

In the second year of life, infants are actively interested in objects used by adults, despite the number of experienced difficulties in achieving their goals while handling these objects. What causes the child attempt to handle an object for a designated purpose while watching the adult? One of the evident explanations concerns the effectiveness of the adults behavior and the child’s desire to achieve the same result. However, multiple studies have shown that a child is guided not exclusively by the hoped-for result, but also by the adults intention. In our study, we verified the reason guiding a child’s choice …

Give Me Time to Picture That: Effects of Time and Imageability on Effector-Specific Motor Activation in Idiom Processing

Galina Gradinarova,

Petar Kanchev,

Armina Janyan

Created: Sept. 13, 2022

A great amount of evidence has now been accumulated indicating that many aspects of cognition, including language are closely interconnected with or “grounded” in the sensory-motor modalities. In this respect, an interesting line of research that has not yet been studied in great detail is whether activation of the sensory-motor brain areas can be found when figurative language is processed. Two experiments were conducted to address the following questions: firstly, can evidence of effector-specific motor activation be found in the processing of idioms; secondly, how would such activation unfold in time? We hypothesized that highly imageable idioms are more strongly …

The Dynamics of Working Memory Load in Insight Problem Solving

Sergei Yu. Korovkin,

Ilya Yu. Vladimirov,

Anna D. Savinova

Published: Jan. 1, 2014

This paper describes the possible methodological techniques of evaluation of the problem solving process as the main task by a secondary probe task. We propose a method of estimation of the microdynamics of thought processes via changes in the dynamics of working memory load in problem solving by a probe monitor. The results of assessment of the dynamics of working memory load in insight and algorithmized problem solving via a two-alternative choice task are shown. There are significant differences between the dynamics of working memory load in insight and algorithmized problem solving in the last stages, which confirm the hypothesis …

Theories of Implicit Learning: Contradictory Approaches to the Same Phenomenon or Consistent Descriptions of Different Types of Learning?

Ivan Ivanchei

Published: Jan. 1, 2014

Almost 50 years ago, Reber described implicit learning as the unintentional and unconscious processing of regularities in the environment. Since then, psychologists have actively investigated this phenomenon. However, there is currently no unambiguous description of the mechanisms of implicit learning. Moreover, the descriptions of implicit learning properties vary depending on the approach to the phenomenon. The main theoretical accounts developed in the last decades are presented in this work. Four types of theories are identified, which differ in how they answer two main questions: 1) How explicit is the knowledge acquired during implicit learning?; and 2) How automatically is it …

Ментальный лексикон: где же место морфологии?

Мария Васильева

Published: Jan. 1, 2014

Репрезентация морфологии в ментальном лексиконе является одной из актуальных проблем современной психолингвистики. В данной работе делается попытка дать максимально исчерпывающий обзор моделей ментального лексикона, в которых отражена морфемная структура слова, а также поведенческих методик, направленных на проверку данных моделей. Поскольку на данный момент ни одна из моделей не является общепризнанной, мы приводим некоторые основные эффекты, связанные с морфологией, которые были получены в экспериментальных исследованиях и объяснение которых должно быть заложено в идеальную модель.

О «ревизионизме в выготсковедении» Комментарий к статье А. Ясницкого и Э. Ламдана «В августе 1941-го» (2017)

Татьяна Васильевна Ахутина

Published: March 18, 2019

Статья посвящена обсуждению «ревизионизма в выготсковедении» — подхода, развиваемого А. Ясниц- ким и коллегами и подробно изложенного в работе А. Ясницкого и Э. Ламдана «„В августе 1941-го“: Неизвестное письмо А. Р. Лурии в США как зеркало „ревизионистской революции“» (История российской психологии в лицах: Дайджест, 2017). Целью сторонников «ревизионистской революции» является критическое изучение научного наследия Л. С. Выготского, А. Р. Лурии и круга их сотрудников и демифологизация личности Выготского и вклада его и его школы в науку. В нашей статье рассматривается произошедший в 2012 году переход от «архивной революции» к разоблачительной «ревизионистской». В анализ включены публикации Ясницкого с коллегами «Когда б …