| 7 | FROM THE EDITORS |
| PART ONE | |
| GENERAL PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY | |
| DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS By L. S. VYGOTSKY | |
| 9 | PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS |
| 19 | METHOD OF INVESTIGATION |
| 31 | STRUCTURE OF THE HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS |
| 35 | GENESIS OF THE HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS |
| 46 | PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY By S. L. RUBINSTEIN |
| SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE AFFERENT APPARATUS OF THE CONDITIONED REFLEX AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO PSYCHOLOGY By P. K. ANOKHIN (Department of Physiology, Moscow State University) | |
| 67 | [introduction.] |
| 68 | CONCERNING THE DECISIVE ROLE OF AFFERENT SYSTEMS IN NERVOUS ACTIVITY |
| 72 | THEORY OF RETURN AFFERENTATION |
| 81 | THEORY OF THE ACCEPTOR OF ACTION |
| 95 | ROLE OF THE FOREGOING THEORY IN EXPLAINING CERTAIN PHYSIOLOGIC AND MENTAL PHENOMENA |
| 99 | THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE CONDITIONED REFLEX By E. A. ASRATYAN (Moscow, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.) |
| 151 | BILATERAL REGULATION AS A MECHANISM OF BEHAVIOUR By B. G. ANANYEV (Leningrad University, Department of Psychology) • SOME PROBLEMS ON THE CONTROL OF MOTOR ACTS By N. A. BERNSTEIN |
| RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON PROPERTIES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN MAN By B. M. TEPLOV and V. D. NEBYHTSIN (Institute of Psychology, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the R.S.F.S.R., Moscow, Laboratory of Psychophysiology) | |
| 181 | “PROPERTIES” AND “TYPES” |
| 182 | SYNDROMES OF BASIC PROPERTIES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM |
| 187 | CORRELATION BETWEEN SENSITIVITY AND STRENGTH OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM |
| 189 | INVESTIGATION OF THE INHIBITORY PROCESS |
| 191 | ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX AND PROPERTIES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM |
| PART TWO | |
| SENSATIONS PERCEPTIONS | |
| 199 | ON THE NATURE OF MENTAL REFLECTION By Y. V. SHOROKHOVA (Institute of Philosophy of the U.S.S.B. Academy of Sciences, Moscow) |
| 218 | INTERACTION OF THE SENSE ORGANS By S. V. KRAVKOV |
| MANUAL INTERACTION IN THE PROCESS OF TACTILE PERCEPTION By B. F. LOMOV (Leningrad University) | |
| 267 | 1. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BIRECEPTION |
| 268 | 2. MANUAL FUNCTIONAL ASYMMETRIES AND THEIR ORIGIN |
| 271 | 3. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL DATA ON HEMISPHERIC INTERACTION IN MAN |
| 275 | 4. SPECIFIC FEATURES OF BIMANUAL TACTILE PERCEPTION |
| 278 | 5. THE PROCESS OF BIMANUAL PERCEPTION |
| 287 | 6. DIGITAL INTERACTION IN THE PROCESS OF BIMANUAL PALPATION |
| 299 | 7. CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR THE FORMATION OF AN INTEGRAL IMAGE IN BIMANUAL PALPATION |
| 304 | 8. SYNCHRONOUS BIMANUAL PALPATION OF TWO OBJECTS |
| ON THE BASIC PROPERTIES OF THE MENTAL IMAGE AND A GENERAL APPROACH TO THEIR ANALOGUE SIMULATION By L. M. WBKKEB | |
| 310 | [introduction.] |
| 310 | General Historical and Theoretical Premises for Stating the Problem of the Image |
| 314 | CONCERNING CYBERNETIC PRINCIPLES OF THE THEORY OF IMAGE |
| 321 | ON THE CONTROL FUNCTION OF THE IMAGE |
| 326 | CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MENTAL IMAGE |
| ORIENTING REFLEX AS INFORMATION REGULATOR By Y. N. SOKOLOV | |
| 334 | 1. CRITERION FOR ISOLATING THE ORIENTING REFLEX AS AN INDEPENDENT FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM |
| 338 | 2. ORIENTING REFLEX AND ACTIVATION REACTION |
| 346 | 3. EXTINCTION OF THE ORIENTING REFLEX AND ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA |
| 347 | 4. “NERVE MODEL OF THE STIMULUS” |
| 349 | 5. ALGORITHM OF THE ORIENTING REACTION DURING DIFFERENTIATION OF SOUND SEQUENCES |
| 355 | 6. ALGORITHM OF THE ORIENTING REACTION IN TACTILE RECEPTION |
| 359 | CONCLUSION |
| 361 | CONCERNING THE ACTIVITY OF MAN’S VISUAL SYSTEM By A. N. LEONTYEV and Y. B. GIPPENREITER |
| 393 | DEVELOPMENT OF PERCEPTUAL ACTIVITY AND FORMATION OF A SENSORY IMAGE IN THE CHILD By A. V. ZAPOROZHETS and V. P. ZINCHENKO Department of Psychology, Moscow State University and Institute of Preschool Education, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences |
| 422 | THE PROBLEM OF PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY IN THE LIGHT OF THE THEORY OF SET By R. NATADZE (Tbilisi, State University) |
| 439 | METHOD |
| 440 | PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS |
| 443 | THE BASIC EXPERIMENT |
| 444 | RESULTS OF THE FIRST VARIANT OF THE BASIC EXPERIMENT |
| 445 | RESULTS OF THE SECOND VARIANT OF THE BASIC EXPERIMENT |
| 447 | CONCLUSIONS |
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