摘要：This special issue of “Psychology in Russia: State of the Art” is dedicated to the 120thanniversary of Lev Vygotsky, an outstanding Russian (Soviet) psychologist whosecultural-historical approach has given rise to numerous theoretical advances, empiricalresearch and applied methods in psychology and education worldwide.Though a journal issue cannot comprehensively and comprehensively describeVygostky’s legacy, we hope to outline some important trajectories of its development.Such attempt is successfully made by Alfredo Ardila in the article “L.S. Vygotskyin the 21st century” in the “Theory and methodology” section. JoaquimQuintino-Aires claims the opposite: “the crisis in psychology” continues and it isthe time to begin dialog, not to summarize it.In the “Neuropsychology” section Janna M. Glozman outlines historical aspectsof Vygotsky’s contribution to applied neuropsychology. Aleksandr M. Chernorizov,Sergei A. Isaychev, and Yury P. Zinchenko with the colleagues review newapproaches and perspectives in psychophysiological methods for the diagnosticsof human functional states. Cultural-historical approach to neuropsychologicalstudies is represented by the paper on psychophysiological, developmental, andcross-cultural aspects of face cognition by Aleksandr M. Chernorizov, Zhong-qingJiang, Anastasia V. Petrakova, and Yury P. Zinchenko. Neurophysiological correlatesof artistic image creation by representatives of artistic professions are revealedby Liudmila A. Dikaya, Igor S. Dikiy, Viktorija V. Karpova, and AnastasiyaY. Lavreshina. Finally, Arnoldo Téllez and Teresa de J. Sánchez propose the modelof the functional units of the brain and the concept of neuropsychology of dreaming,based on the works by Aleksandr Luria, an outstanding neuropsychologist andVygotsky’s collaborator.
