!!Luciano Mecacci - Curriculum Vitae \\ __Education__ \\ *1970 Laurea in Filosofia, University of Rome “La Sapienza” \\ __Scientific and Academic positions__ \\ *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 \\ __Institutional Positions__ \\ *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 \\ __Guest Professorships and Fellowships__ \\ *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 \\ __Member of Editorial Boards__ \\ *Journal of East European and Russian Psychology\\ *European Yearbook of the History of Psychology\\ *Culture and Education\\ \\ __Books (a selection)__\\ \\ 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).\\ \\ (with Lamberto Maffei), La visione. Dalla neurofisiologia alla psicologia, preface by Nobel Prize R. Granit. Milano: Mondadori EST 1979.\\ \\ Identikit del cervello. Roma-Bari: Laterza 1982 (translated in Spanish, 1985; Dutch, 1985; German, 1986; Portuguese, 1987).\\ \\ Dizionario delle scienze psicologiche. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008.\\ \\ La Ghirlanda fiorentina e la morte di Giovanni Gentile. Milano: Adelphi, 2014.\\ \\ Lev Vygotskij. Evoluzione, educazione e patologia della mente. Firenze: Giunti 2018.\\ \\ Storia della psicologia. Dal Novecento a oggi. Roma-Bari: Laterza 2019.\\ \\ Besprizornye. Bambini randagi nella Russia sovietica, 1917-1935. Milano: Adelphi 2019 (German translation in progress, Hanser, Berlin).\\ \\ __Articles (a selection since 2000)__\\ \\ Luria: A unitary view of human brain and mind. Cortex, 2005, 41: 816-822.\\ \\ Solomon S. Shereshevsky: The great Russian mnemonist. Cortex, 2013, 49: 2260-2263.\\ \\ Vygotsky’s reception in the West: the Italian case between Marxism and communism. History of The Human Sciences, 2015, 28: 173-184.\\ \\ A possible source of the final piece of Vygotsky’s Thinking and Speech. European Yearbook of the History of Psychology, 2016, 2: 71-77.\\ \\ (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.\\ \\ Dante on mind and brain. Cortex, 2021, 138, 356-364.\\ \\