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· 1967
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000270558
· OA: W4248789126
A total of 37 Symposia were held: 10 on " Biological and Physiological Problems of Psychology ", 27 on " General Problems of Psychology ", 5 on " Problems of Mental Development", and 5 on " Problems of Social Psychology".In most cases Soviet psychologists served as chairman.Scholars from the USA and the USSR read most of the papers and were particularly active in the discussions.From the first series of topics the Soviet investigations on " Cybernetic Aspects of Integrative Brain Activities", (N.A. Bernstein, P.K. Anochin), and " Integrative Forms of Conditioned Reflexes", (E. A. Aratyan) deserve special mention.J. Konorski (Warsaw) organized the Symposium on " Classical an Instrumental Conditioning", and E.N. Sokolov reported on the role of " Orienting Rcaktion" in the formation of conditioned reflexes and on the success of electro-physiological examinations of indi vidual neurons in the visual cortex.It can be generally statet, that the Soviet psychologists regard the phenomena described by the " Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity" as one basis of behavior.It is, principally, impossible to reduce the behavior of the acting subject to rigid chains of reflexes." Detection of Signals", (B.F.Lomov), " Information Theory and Perception" (P.Fraisse), " Information Processing" (F.K lix)-are all attempts to describe and to formulate mathematically the structure of active " Reflexion" in perception (A.N.Leontiev).
