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  • 13 - There can be no culturalhistorical psychology without neuropsychology. And vice versa
  • from Part V - Brain
  • Edited by Anton Yasnitsky, University of Toronto, René van der Veer, Universiteit Leiden, Michel Ferrari, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
  • Published online: 05 October 2014
  • Print publication: 30 September 2014, pp 315-349
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    Summary

    This chapter examines the powerful role of cultural mediation in human development. It reviews Lev Vygotsky's thinking on the topic of cultural mediation, including its hallmark achievements and also aspects that require further elaboration. The chapter presents arguments for a developmental account of cultural mediation and discusses its potential to demystify the power of signs to greatly enhance human psychological abilities. It summarizes that the contemporary research continues to struggle with the question about the unique role that signs might play in the operations of the human mind. Many scholars outside the cultural-historical framework make advances in answering this question but leave substantial gaps in their resulting conceptions. Finally, the chapter outlines the developmental continuum of emerging mediational means of growing complexity. The approach developed by Vygotsky can be used to advance a dialectial perspective on the link between the human mind and the world of culture.
  • 4 - Methodology of cultural-historical psychology
  • from Part II - Method
  • Edited by Anton Yasnitsky, University of Toronto, René van der Veer, Universiteit Leiden, Michel Ferrari, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
  • Published online: 05 October 2014
  • Print publication: 30 September 2014, pp 101-125
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    Lev Vygotsky proposed that psychology should go beyond immediate experiences; psychology is about processes hidden from direct observation. In Vygotskian cultural-historical psychology scientific activity is understood as study of the world that is based simultaneously on method and methodology. The aim of cultural-historical psychology is to describe directly non-observable psychological structures that underlie manifest behavior. This chapter contains several examples to prove that there is no one-to-one correspondence between the sensory world and reality and even less so between sensory-based and semiotic representations. It discusses one example that follows from application of methodological principles of the cultural-historical approach at the relatively local level of theory-building. Cultural-historical psychology is structural-systemic. Finally, the chapter discusses the two issues at a more local level, that of internalization and that of lexical assumption. Structural-systemic cultural-historical methodology rejects the unidirectional '(cultural) environment-determines-mind' account of the development of mind.
  • Components of verbal working memory
  • Aaro Toomela, Jüri Allik
  • Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 22 / Issue 1 / February 1999
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 1999, p. 110
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    The target article differentiates a new, syntactic component in verbal working memory. We suggest that several more components could be differentiated to make a model of working memory complete. Next, syntax is not always separable from the subject's verbal memory capacity as measured by standard working memory tasks. Finally, interference between different processes cannot be taken as evidence for the processes sharing the same resources. Interference might be a result of active mutual inhibition.