Мышление и речь

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky studies how thought links to speech. He draws on almost ten years of work. He takes on a hard question in experimental psychology. This field tests how the mind works. The book is a classic of Russian psycholinguistics, which studies language and the mind. It still guides both ideas and practice in psychology.

This study of the mind is for nonfiction readers. Vygotsky linked the study of teaching with that of the mind. He held that traits passed down at birth cannot alone explain mental growth. Social life and how we raise children also shape the mind. He founded the cultural-historical theory. It explains how the mind and the person grow.

His peers mocked his ideas and spoke against them. Yet he did more than two hundred studies in his short life. His work helped shape general psychology and child psychology. It also helped shape neuropsychology, which links the brain and mind. People around the world still study his work today.