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Abstract

This article includes an appeal to voluntary regulation as a phenomenon that A.R. Luria continued to study after revealing the problem of voluntary regulation in Vygotsky’s work. Thus, based on the basic conceptual provisions of the cultural-historical approach about the nature of higher mental functions of A.R. Luria extrapolates his understanding of voluntary regulation into the methodological apparatus of the theory and practice of neuropsychology. The article presents attempts to resolve the problem of arbitrary regulation under the leadership of A.R. Luria and his colleagues describe experiments on the mechanisms of voluntary regulation. It was found that during the experiments, the ability to subordinate to verbal control and control of motor behavior became possible as the internal verbal program developed. Thanks to the contribution of A.R. Luria and his colleagues, the study of the mechanisms of volitional regulation of speech received partial confirmation in practice, while at the same time calling into question the complete dependence of the work of the motor apparatus on established speech acts. A hypothesis regarding the participation of speech in the implementation of voluntary regulation is proposed for scientific discussion. Some provisions of the discussion dedicated to the legacy of A.R. are given. Luria in the modern scientific and cultural-historical context at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. [8]