Background
A. R. Luria was born July 3, 1902, in Kazan, Russia. Many of his family were in medicine.
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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.
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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.
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A. R. Luria was born July 3, 1902, in Kazan, Russia. Many of his family were in medicine.
He graduated from the University of Kazan in 1921.
From 1924 to 1934 he worked with the educational psychologist L. S. Vygotskii. Under Vygotskii's key influence he studied the development of language and mind in the child, the structure of play in childhood, and cross-cultural cognitive development. In 1937 Luria successfully qualified in medicine and was enlisted as a medical officer in World War II. The war brought to the fore the profound effects of head and brain injuries, and it was Luria's responsibility to assess and rehabilitate brain-injured servicemen. This experience prompted him to focus on the dysfunction of the brain, and thus the mind, as a way of understanding how memory, imagination, and the other cognitive faculties function normally.
His postwar study of the precise mental deficits caused by small, local tumors, together with his wartime studies of brain injuries, enabled him to map the more complex functions of the brain in a unique way. With this greater understanding Luria was able to treat patients, including, most notably, "the man with a shattered world, " with at least some success, where previously there had been none. Through his study and treatment of the neurologically afflicted, Luria achieved insights into the essential nature of human thought, perception, and behavior that had the greatest influence on both his immediate contemporaries and on a whole generation of later figures. Luria's major works in English translation include Higher Cortical Functions in Man (1966), The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology (1972), and The Neuropsychology of Memory (1976). His posthumous autobiography, The Making of a Mind: A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology, appeared in 1979.
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In 1933, Luria married Lana P. Lipchina, a well-known specialist in microbiology with a doctorate in the biological sciences. The couple lived in Moscow on Frunze Street, where their only daughter Lena (Elena) was born.