The laws of our thinking are so clear and natural to us, that for hundreds of years they were considered something innate, inseparable from human nature itself. But is it so, or, like many other characteristics of the human psyche, are they created by society, representing a product of social development? In order to finally answer this essential question, the Soviet psychologists L. S. Vygotsky and A. R. Luria conducted a series of large-scale experiments in Soviet Uzbekistan - and the data they obtained is amazing.

The laws of our thinking are so clear and natural to us, that for hundreds of years they were considered something innate, inseparable from human nature itself. But is it so, or, like many other characteristics of the human psyche, are they created by society, representing a product of social development? In order to finally answer this essential question, the Soviet psychologists L. S. Vygotsky and A. R. Luria conducted a series of large-scale experiments in Soviet Uzbekistan - and the data they obtained is amazing.

Associate Professor Anton Barkatkov talks about the essence and results of one of the most important experiments in the history of psychological science.