New Data on Perception Under Stabilization Conditions

Abstract

Perception serves the subject’s productive activity, is formed together with it, and bares the imprint of this activity. As long ago as the 1930s, B. G. Anan’ev, A. V. Zaporozhets, A. N. Leont’ev, B. M. Teplov, and others began their systematic in vestigations of the genetic and functional connections between perception and activity. Later, similar in vestigations were carried out by Piaget and his collaborators. As this cycle of investigations increased in breadth and depth, its authors gradually transferred their attention from establishing the general relationships between perception and activity to a detailed investigation of the effector components of perception, i.e., to the study of movements implicated in the perception process and performed by receptor systems.