The book introduces the reader to the research of one of the founders of Russian psycholinguistics I.N. Gorelov (1928-1999). Of the scientist's extensive heritage, works have been selected for republication, which, on the one hand, most fully represent the breadth and universality of his scientific interests, and on the other hand, according to a high citation index, they now have the status of classics. With a variety of topics and areas of language science that affect published works (verbal thinking, non-verbal components of communication, phonosemantics, onto- and neurolinguistics, social psycholinguistics, bilingualism, artificial intelligence, etc.), I.N. Gorelova's works reflect (and express) a holistic psycholinguistic concept that explains the nature of the relationship between speech and thinking, language and consciousness and t.