Histories of Scientific Insights is a walk through time, from the birth of civilization to the present, looking at key discoveries, detailing the people and the context of those discoveries. The focus is on concepts we use daily about which we wonder occasionally where they came from.

The book which you are holding is the result of 20 years of research carried out in Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (Moscow) established at the dawn of the space era to provide medical and psychological support to space flights. It offers a survey of speech analysis methods together with a detailed description of the authors choice of the methodological basis which they used in their study of the isolated small groups communication with the outside world. The research outcomes obtained in a series of simulation experiments conducted by international space agencies allowed the...