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.

<p>This is the English translation of the first book by Dr. Krushinskii, head of the Moscow University Laboratory on the Pathophysiology of Higher Nervous Activities, dealing with the theory and principal results of investigations by himself and his associates. This report of the author's energetic application of the reflex and related physiological principles to behavior study offers a valuable opportunity to review important aspects of the great radiation of Soviet behavior research stemming from the Pavlovian movement.</p>

Animal Behavior: Its Normal and Abnormal Development

Science & Math

L.V. Krushinskii

Biological Sciences

Springer

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