The Fiftieth Anniversary of Soviet Psychophysiology

It must be generally recognized today that areas "contiguous" to a particular science have great theoretical and practical importance, which arises during contact of various sciences in some important objective. This is particularly true with respect to such a complex research objective as the thinking human brain. We find the ancients already beginning to speculate about the question of the relation of the "soul" to the body and about which body organ has the closest relation to psychological activity. Gradually this question became more concrete and was broken down into a group of more particular problems on which many scholars have been working. The early "classical" psychophysiology was primarily concerned with study of the relation of the senses and perception to the physical properties of stimuli and to the anatomical-physiological apparatuses of the peripheral sense organs. Currently, the main emphasis is shifting more and more to a study of the central mechanisms of psychological processes. This fundamental shift in approach to the traditional "psychophysical" problem (now frequently referred to as the psychophysiological problem) first took place in the area of studying the mechanisms of association, and was subsequently spread over studies of perception, emotion, voluntary movements, cognitive processes, and, finally, individual psychological differences

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• Soviet Psychophysiology

  Luciano Mecacci, Josef Brozek•Soviet Psychology•1973

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