Vera Demberg: Modeling human sentence-processing
Modeling human sentence-processing can help us both better understand how the brain processes language, and also help improve user interfaces. For example, our systems...
Word as a Tool for Scientific Concept Development
The purpose of the experiment reported by Vygotsky in his book Thought and Speech was to discover the role that a word plays and the character of its functional use in...
Scientific vs. Spontaneous Concepts: Vygotskian perspective
Vygotsky borrowed the terms spontaneous and non-spontaneous from Piaget; however, he included scientific concepts in non-spontaneous and preferred the term everyday co...
Concept Development in Bilinguals: Vygotskian Framework
Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky worked in the 1920s and 1930s, and devoted a large portion of his book Thought and Speech (Vygotsky, 1986) to the experimental work ...
