Commentary on V. S. Deryabin’s Works “Formation of Emotional Temporary Connections” and “Memory of Emotions and Feelings”
Background: Commentary on the sections of V. S. Deryabin’s monograph “Feelings, Inclinations, Emotions”, which were significantly reduced in the first edition. They were devoted to the psychophysiological mechanisms of memory of emotions and feelings and united under the common title: “Memory of emotions and feelings as a result of the formation of emotional temporary connections”. Results: The paradigm of V. S. Deryabin’s research is the regularities of higher nervous activity discovered by I. P. Pavlov, in particular, temporary nervous connection, which in psychology corresponds to the formation of associations. Over the course of a person's life, feelings, inclinations, emotions (affectivity) evolve from simple ones that provide vital activity to complex feelings that carry out social adaptation. The dominant emotion (emotional dominant) creates centers of excitation in the cerebral cortex, including the ends of the visual, auditory, olfactory and tactile analyzers. Over time the renewal of these feelings, therefore, leads, according to the law of temporary connection, to the reproduction of the past emotional dominant and the situation associated with it. Conclusion: V. S. Deryabin’s works were ahead of their time in understanding the psychophysiological mechanisms of emotions and feelings memory.