Lev Vygotsky
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Lev Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist who studied how children learn and develop, emphasizing the importance of social interaction and cultural context in shaping human thinking. His ideas—developed in the early 20th century and influential today—challenged the view that learning is purely individual, instead suggesting that relationships with others and cultural tools like language fundamentally shape how our minds work.
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- Thought and language.
· 1962 · cited 6,751x
- Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
· 1997 · cited 6,178x
- A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?
· 2011 · cited 5,962x
- Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases
· 1999 · cited 4,885x
- Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation
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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Russian: Лев Семёнович Выготский, IPA: [vɨˈɡotskʲɪj]; Belarusian: Леў Сямёнавіч Выгоцкі; November 17 [O.S. November 5] 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet Union until Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, with a first collection of major texts published in 1956. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Vygotsky as the 83rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
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1896 births1934 deaths20th-century Belarusian Jews20th-century Belarusian scientists20th-century deaths from tuberculosis20th-century Russian scientistsAcademic staff of Moscow State UniversityCognitive psychologistsCognitive scientistsCommunication theoristsConstructivism (psychological school)Developmental psychologists