Higher Cortical Functions in Man, 2nd Edition

by Alexander R. Luria

English, Russian (translation)

Genres: Psychology, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Medicine

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Alexander Romanovich Luria (Russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия ) was a famous Soviet neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist. He was one of the founders of cultural-historical psychology and the leaders of the Vygotsky Circle. Apart from his work with Vygotsky, he is widely known for his later work with two extraordinary psychological case studies, his study of a man with a highly advanced memory published as The Mind of a Mnemonist, and the study of a man with traumatic brain injury published in The Man with a Shattered World.