Memorial tablet at school 121 chelyabinsk

Vladimir Dmitrievich Nebylitsyn, Russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Небылицын (1930, Chelyabinsk region — 1 October 1972, near Adler) was a Russian

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, one of Boris Teplov's disciples, professor (1968), associate member of the Russian Academy of Pedagogy. Based on Teplov's researches, he studied problems of experimental

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. He managed to substantiate Teplov's hypothesis of inverse dependency between the strength of the nervous system and sensibility. He described some previously unknown characteristics of the nervous system, such as dynamicism, developed several electro-physiological methods of research of dynamics of brain processes. Nebylitsyn advanced a hypothesis on general characteristics of the nervous system underlying such personal characteristics as activity and self-regulation. In Soviet psychology he was a pioneer of the

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. He died in the crash of

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with his wife. His brother Boris Nebylitsyn taught at

Chelyabinsk State University Chelyabinsk State University is a public university in Chelyabinsk, Russia. It was established in 1976 and is considered to be one of the leading academic institutions in the Ural region. Member of Association of Classical Universities of Russia ...

Works

* Основные свойства нервной системы человека. 1966 (Main Characteristics of the Nervous System); * Психофизиологические исследования индивидуальных различий. 1976 (Psychophysiological Research of Individual Differences). * Teplov, B.M. & Nebylitsyn, V.D. (1963) Experimental study of properties of the nervous system in man. Journal of Highest Nervous Activity, 13: 789-797. * Gray, J. A. (1964) Pavlov's typology. Oxford: Pergamon Press. * Nebylitsyn, V. D. (1972) Fundamental properties of the human nervous system. NY: Plenum. * Mecacci, L. & Brozek, J., Eds. (1973) Soviet psychophysiology. Soviet Psychology, 11 (no. 3) (special issue). * Mecacci, L. (1976) Trends in the psychophysiology of individual differences. The Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science, 11: 93-104. * Mecacci, L. (1987) Basic properties of the nervous system and arousal model in the light of current neurophysiology. In J. Strelau and H. J. Eysenck (eds.), Personality dimensions and arousal (pp. 171–182). NY: Plenum Press. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nebylitsyn Russian psychologists 1930 births 1972 deaths 20th-century psychologists