Psychology. Education.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | �HRONICLE | ||
| Codes UDC | 159.99 | Page | 69-74 |
| Title | The life of P. K. Denisov | ||
| Author 1 | Kuznetsova Tamara G. | I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia Doctor of Biological Sciences, chief scientist e-mail: tamara-kuznetsova@yandex.ru |
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| Summary | In the year of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the primates center in Koltushi we duty bound to tell about the tragic fate of one of the students of I.P. Pavlov, restore scientific and historical justice and pay tribute to the memory of the forgotten Russian scientist - Peter Konstantinovich Denisov, talented follower of I. P. Pavlov. P. K. Denisov was at the forefront of research of anthropoid cognitive activity and created this unique scientific center for the study of higher nervous (psychic) activities of the apes. P. K. Denisov graduated from the Theological Seminary. And only aft er the revolution he pursued higher education, then completed his postgraduate studies and began working in I.P. Pavlov�s laboratory. In 1933 he brought from France two chimpanzees - Rose and Rafael. In Koltushi, at the northernmost point of the world, he initiated the study of the behavior of the anthropoids. In 1935 P. K. Denisov made the first in Russia report on the results of study of the ape behavior by the method of conditioned reflexes. In 1937 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the analyzer and synthetic functions of the cerebral cortex of the brain of chimpanzees, but was arrested and on 1 December was shot. | ||
| Keywords | P. K. Denisov, primate, psychophysiology, history | ||