This important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive research aimed at understanding the cerebral basis of human psychological activity. The main part of the book describes what we know today about the individual systems that make up the human brain and about the role of the individual zones of the cerebral hemispheres in the task of providing the necessary conditions for higher forms of mental activity to take place. Finally, Luria analyzes the cerebral organization of perception and action, of attention and memory, or speech and intellectual processes, and attempts to fit the facts obtained by neuropsychological studies of individual brain systems into their appropriate place in the grand design of psychological science.

The Working Brain

Alexander R. Luria

Basil Haigh

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon―a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best fictional literature, fashions a portrait of an unforgettable human being.

The mind of a mnemonist: A little book about a vast memory

Self-Help

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

<p>This full-length translation of Professor Luria's book introduces to the English speaking world a major document in neuropsychology, summarizing Professor Luria's earlier contributions to that area for nearly a third of a century. It is a monumental contribution. Nothing of this scope exists in the Western literature of this field, with the possible exception of Ajuriaguerra and Hecaen's book (in French) on the cerebral cortex. Professor Luria's book thus marks a further and decisive step toward the eventual coalescence of neurology and psychology, a goal to which only a few laboratories in the East and West have been devoted over the last decades. The book is unique in its organization. The first half deals with observations and interpretations concerning the major syndromes of man's left cerebral hemisphere: those grievous distortions of higher functions traditionally described as aphasia, agnosia, and apraxia. There is also a detailed and brilliant analysis of the syndrome of massive frontal-lobe involvement. The entire second half of the book is given over to a painstaking description of Professor Luria's tests, many of them introduced by himself, and set out in such detail that anyone could repeat them and thus verify Professor Luria's interpretations.</p>

Higher Cortical Functions in Man. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Springer

The neuropsychology of memory

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Ape, Primitive Man and Child: Essays in the History of Behaviour

These three psychological studies on the behaviour of anthropoid apes, that of primitive man and of the child, are united by the common theme of development. They all have as their goal a schematic representation of the path of psychological development from the ape to civilized man. In each study, the authors consider, not the entire range of behaviour of the three subjects of the study, but a single dominant feature or single aspect of behaviour, basically that aspect of behaviour that points in the direction and path of development from a given starting point. The particular paths followed here are evolutionary, historical and ontological ones and the authors argue that the behaviour of civilized man is a product of all three lines of development.

Ape, primitive man, and child: Essays in the history of behavior

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

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