The textbook presents the content of modern psycholinguistics in a structure that includes its general and domestic history, theoretical and applied aspects. The book has a broad focus. It is addressed to everyone who is interested in the life of language in the human psyche .. Special sections are aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students. New ideas on the problem of speech-language semantics, the relationship of language to the brain . New data related to new discoveries in psychogenetics, the study of the linguistic capabilities of higher animals are included In a new light, the topic of children's speech is considered, which is directly related to the deep mechanisms of speech. Place is given to questions of speech influence, speech diagnostics, defects and underdevelopments of speech functions. In the preparation of the texts took part and . In. Queen, B. and . Lubovsky, E. E. Liakso, E. Yu. Markovina, N. B. Mikhailova, I. In. Ruzicki, I. A. Sternin, T. N. Ushakova, G. T. Hoohuni, T. In. Chernigov, V. and . Shakhovskiy .