Do illiterates have illusions? A conceptual (non)replication of Luria (1976)

Arunkumar, M.; Paridon, Jeroen van; Ostarek, Markus; Huettig, Falk

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“…This situation was recently discussed in terms of the "Luria-Koffka controversy of 1932" (Lamdan & Yasnitsky, 2016). A most recent rigorous experimental study on a "conceptual (non)replication of Luria" in effect corroborated Koffka's findings (Arunkumar, Van Paridon, Ostarek, & Huettig, 2021). Koffka's book of 1935 bears certain traces of his collaboration on this field study in the Soviet Uzbekistan-see, for instance, an example of, in Koffka's own words, "an experiment which I made in the summer of 1932 in a small village in Uzbekistan in Central Asia" (Koffka, 1935, pp.…”

Section: Human Development Historicism and Dialectical Changesupporting

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Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: Toward Pragmatic Anthropology

Yasnitsky

2021

Gestalt Theory

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Original Contributions -Originalbeiträge and adjust our views on the possible theoretical meaning of this larger German/ Soviet network of like-minded individuals, yet cum grano salis and also necessarily keeping in mind the differences between them. Both ways of analysis are possible and quite legitimate: dissimilarities and similarities are equally important. Yet, differences notwithstanding, the following sections will be treated from the perspective of this very-specific and idiosyncratic-Soviet positive reception of Gestaltism that came about on the grounds of their theoretical and methodological similarities (and resemblances) and the search for, figuratively speaking, the "lowest common denominator", which I believe are of considerable promise in the context of the tasks and challenges facing psychology in the 21st century, specifically, the lack of and the need for a unifying general psychological theory, yet to come about, possibly, as a transdisciplinary field of knowledge under the label of "pragmatic Anthropology", as I proposed earlier (Yasnitsky, 2021d). The discussion is based on my earlier-somewhat tentative and preliminary-text on "Field theory", which was written for and published in a multivolume book titled "Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology" (Yasnitsky, 2014). The word "critical" in the book's title is not incidental, and that small paper was intended to discover the unusual facts and perspectives, the "anomalies" that are frequently ignored in traditional narratives. Now, I would like to revisit this earlier research, question some of its proposals, and expand its findings beyond the limits of its original, relatively narrow topic.The following part of this paper suggests a few theoretical points related to Soviet-German-American intellectual proximity and convergence, but inevitably-partly because of the limits on paper length -only in the most schematic, fragmented, and tentative form, in a few broad brushstrokes, for the purposes of providing the reader food for thought, the grounds for further critical discussion, and, whenever needed, unbridled yet fair, rational,, and argumentative criticism. Gestalt Theory as a Cultural Anthropology of PersonalityOverall, Vygotsky's science was clearly some sort of anthropology-cultural anthropology, to be precise-even though the word as such is definitely not an element of his vocabulary and despite his identification as a psychologist. Just consider the title of the book (Vygotskii & Luria, 1930): "Etudes on the History of Behavior. Ape, Primitive, Child" (alternatively, the first word of the title can be translated as "essays" or "studies"). This is the book of 1930 by Vygotsky (the author of roughly a half of the book, the first two smaller chapters out of the three: on "ape" and "primitive", respectively) and Luria, who was the author of the last chapter, which, unlike the first two, by its author's admission, was "based … mainly [on] our material gathered in the experimental studies of child behavior" (Vygotsky & Luria, 1993, p. 37). The book,...

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Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: Toward Pragmatic Anthropology

Yasnitsky

2021

Gestalt Theory

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The literate mind

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Huettig

2021

J Cult Cogn Sci

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Homo sapiens ' ability to invent and culturally transmit technologies has had an enormous impact on planet earth. Human technologies, ranging from starting a fire, stone tools, farming and the wheel, to genetic engineering and deep learning networks, have reshaped all aspects of our lives. One such technology, writing, invented about six thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, has played a particularly key role. It is difficult to overstate its importance for the course of human history. The characterstics of written language are thought to have created a need for more precise definitions of terms and more logical analyses of concepts (Havelock & Havelock, 1963), facilitating critical debate and encouraging more abstract thinking

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Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: “The Russians Are Coming!”

Yasnitsky

2021

Gestalt Theory

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In French, "Bande-annonce" means nothing else but a "trailer": a short movie clip a few minutes long, created for promotional purposes to advertise for a new cinematographic piece to be shortly released on the screens of movie theaters. Yet, if read through the eyes of a German speaker, this very phrase-with certain liberty taken-can be interpreted as something like a classified advertisement ("Annonce") for a new book, a volume ("Band") to appear. And true, a new book is to come out in the more-or-less distant future. So, this article can be regarded as an announcement of a new book. In the meantime, let us have a closer look at the terminological monstrosity in the title: the "cultural-historical Gestalt psychology". This phraseological creature hardly walks and will never fly: obscure, mysterious, and repulsive, it might weakly crawl at best, if only survives. The reader of these lines is pleaded to forgive me the irony of saying all this, but the phrase is really awkward and most likely confusing, indeed. And yet, here it is: here, it stands as the subject matter of this very paper, which not only presents an intellectual provocation (hopefully, in the positive meaning of the word, like in the expression "thought-provoking") but also offers -what I believe -is a really new and exciting pathway in this science of humans.The co-occurrence of these very words in this particular order is not entirely incidental, however. In fact, there are two reasons I use this very phrase in the title of this paper. First, I have already used it earlier on a number of occasions (such as: Yasnitsky, 2012e, 2016a), and it would be a real waste of effort if I resisted the temptation to revisit it and use it once more. Second, the subject matter of this paper is most closely related to a discovery of very curious transnational contacts, mutual visits and international travels, correspondence, idea exchange, and even scientific cooperation between the Soviet scholars of the so-called "Vygotsky-Luria Circle" and the German-American scholars of the so-called "Gestalt psychology" movement. Earlier publications on this topic highlighted the strange scholarly symbiosis, hinted at the "beginning of a beautiful friendship" between intellectuals across state and disciplinary borders and, in a phrase, merged the two intellectual traditions that are hardly associated in the minds of the majority of the global international GESTALT THEORY,

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Do illiterates have illusions? A conceptual (non)replication of Luria (1976)

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Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: Toward Pragmatic Anthropology

Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: Toward Pragmatic Anthropology

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