Date: Tuesday, March 31, at 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

Guest Speaker:  Alla Gubenko,independent researcher 

Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/98564124237 [zoom.us]

Meeting ID: 985 6412 4237

Passcode: Vygotsky

Summary of the presentation: The Alternative Uses Test (AUT) evaluates  the participants’ ability to mentally generate many novel uses for common objects. In this talk, we use the cultural-historical approach to trace the developmental roots of the ability to generate new action possibilities using familiar objects and discuss how this ability grows out of children’s pretend play. A tentative model of response generation in the AUT is presented.

Reading: 
Gubenko, A., & Houssemand, C. (2022). Alternative object use in adults and children: Embodied cognitive bases of creativity. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 893420.

Demonstration of Object Substitution Play Exercises

by Francine Smolucha, Independent Researcher