Contributions of the soviet authors’ studies for contemporary psychology and cognitive neuroscience

Abstract

Soviet authors introduced the concept of “mind” as a complex functional system (CFS) with historical-cultural origin, confirmed and advanced by modern psychology and cognitive neuroscience. As CFS, the mental act is a dynamic set of abstract operations processed in diverse interconnected brain regions, each region giving its specific contribution, as occur with memory and problem solving. The CFSs are constructed in the psychosocial practice mediated by persons and signs, whose lack or deprivation, in critical periods of the mental-cerebral development, may be catastrophic.