!!Luciano Mecacci - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education__
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*1970 Laurea in Filosofia, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
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__Scientific and Academic positions__
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*1971 - 1986 Research Fellow, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council\\
*1986 - 1993 Associate Professor of Physiological Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”\\
*1993 - 1995 Professor of Research Techniques in Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”\\
*1991 - 1995 Scientific Consultant, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Rome\\
*1995 - 2009 Professor of General Psychology, Florence, Italy
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__Institutional Positions__
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*1992 - 1995  Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”\\
*1996 - 1998  Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Florence\\
*1998 - 2006  Vice Rector of the University of Florence\\
*2011 - 2012  President of the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence
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__Guest Professorships and Fellowships__
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*1972  Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology, Moscow\\
*1973 - 1974  Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Research Council, Pisa\\
*1975  Institute of Psychology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow\\
*1978  Institute of Psychology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow\\
*1982  Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, CNRS, Paris\\
*1983  Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, CNRS, Paris
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__Member of Editorial Boards__
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*Journal of East European and Russian Psychology\\
*European Yearbook of the History of Psychology\\
*Culture and Education\\
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__Books (a selection)__\\
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Brain and History. The Relationship between Neurophysiology and Psychology in Soviet Research, preface by A.R. Luria. New York: Brunner/Mazel 1979 (translated in Persian, 2021).\\
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(with Lamberto Maffei), La visione. Dalla neurofisiologia alla psicologia, preface by Nobel Prize R. Granit. Milano: Mondadori EST 1979.\\
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Identikit del cervello. Roma-Bari: Laterza 1982 (translated in Spanish, 1985; Dutch, 1985; German, 1986; Portuguese, 1987).\\
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Dizionario delle scienze psicologiche. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008.\\
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La Ghirlanda fiorentina e la morte di Giovanni Gentile. Milano: Adelphi, 2014.\\
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Lev Vygotskij. Evoluzione, educazione e patologia della mente. Firenze: Giunti 2018.\\
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Storia della psicologia. Dal Novecento a oggi. Roma-Bari: Laterza 2019.\\
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Besprizornye. Bambini randagi nella Russia sovietica, 1917-1935. Milano: Adelphi 2019 (German translation in progress, Hanser, Berlin).\\
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__Articles (a selection since 2000)__\\
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Luria: A unitary view of human brain and mind. Cortex, 2005, 41: 816-822.\\
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Solomon S. Shereshevsky: The great Russian mnemonist. Cortex, 2013, 49: 2260-2263.\\
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Vygotsky’s reception in the West: the Italian case between Marxism and communism. History of The Human Sciences, 2015, 28: 173-184.\\
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A possible source of the final piece of Vygotsky’s Thinking and Speech. European Yearbook of the History of Psychology, 2016, 2: 71-77.\\
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(with D. Caroli) Forbidden science: The dismantling of pedology and the listing of the works of pedologists in The Soviet Union in 1936-1938. European Yearbook of the History of Psychology, 2020, 6: 11-61.\\
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Dante on mind and brain. Cortex, 2021, 138, 356-364.\\ \\