Luria, Alexander Romanovich( Soviet psychologist, founder of neuropsychology)
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Biography Luria, Alexander Romanovich
(1902-1977) - Soviet psychologist, founder of neuropsychology in the Soviet Union. Investigating the 20-ies. affective states rights, developed a combined motor method, revealing the hidden affective complexes. In the future, working with L. S. Vygotsky, A. N. Leontiev and other Soviet psychologists developed the cultural-historical theory the human psyche ( 'Essays on the history of conduct', 1930 - in collaboration with L. S. Vygotsky), focusing especially on the issue of social conditioning of thought ( 'On the historical development of cognitive processes', 1974). The main theoretical and experimental studies of L., . devoted to the problems of cerebral localization of higher mental functions and their disturbances in local brain damage, . served as the basis for the formation of conceptual apparatus and the phenomenological basis of neuropsychology, . and develop a system of methods in neuropsychological diagnosis (known in the world of science as 'battery lurievskih methods') ( 'Fundamentals of neuropsychology', . 1973), . In the last years of his life actively developed the problems of neurolinguistics and neuropsychology of memory.
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