Alexander Luria
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ALEXANDER LURIA
His works:
ALEXANDER LURIA was born in Kazan, an old Russian University town east of Moscow. He entered Kazan University at the age of 16 and obtained his degree in 1921 at the age of 19. While still a student, he established the Kazan Psychoanalytic Association, and planned on a career in psychology. His earliest research sought to establish objective methods for assessing Freudian ideas about abnormalities of thought and the effects of fatigue on mental processes.
At the Institute of Psychology in Moscow he developed a psychodiagnostic procedure he referred to as the ¡§combined motor method.1932. The book describing these studies was published in Russian only in 2002, owing to its association with psychoanalytic theorizing which was disapproved of by Soviet authorities.
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~lynch4/Aphasia.html
Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the temporal lobe or higher up in the frontal lobe. It causes problems with receptive and expressive functions. Aphasia is an impairment in understanding and/or formulating complex, meaningful elements of language. It causes problems with words and word order making difficulties in reading and writing.
Luria
1902-1977
1921 graduated Kazan University
While still a student, he established the Kazan Psychoanalytic Association, and planned on a career in psychology. His earliest research sought to establish objective methods for assessing Freudian ideas about abnormalities of thought and the effects of fatigue on mental processes.
1923 got a position at the Institute of Psychology in Moscow
he developed a psychodiagnostic procedure he referred to as the ¡§combined motor method¡¨ for diagnosing individual subjects' thought processes
1924 met Vygotsky and Leontiev
Together with Vygotsky and Alexei Nikolaivitch Leontiev, Luria sought to establish an approach to psychology that would enable them to ¡§discover the way natural processes such as physical maturation and sensory mechanisms become intertwined with culturally determined processes to produce the psychological functions of adults¡¨
1930 expeditions to Central Asia
1930 entered a medical school, was studying aphasia.
It was during this period that he developed the systematic approach to brain and cognition which has come to be known as the discipline of neuropsychology
¡§The development of the child¡¨.
¡§Ape, Primitive Man and Child: Esseys in the History of Behavior¡¨
Written: c. 1930;
Source: Ape, Primitive Man, and Child: Essays in the
History of Behaviour. A. R. Luria and L. S. Vygotsky. Chapters 1 & 2
are by Vygotsky; Chapter 3, reproduced here, is by Luria;
Published: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Translated by Evelyn
Rossiter;
http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1930/child/index.htm
Removed from the institute of Neurosurgery because of the anti semitic repression.
1946 Storungen grammatikalischer Operationen bei Hirnverletzungen Iswestija Akademii Pedagogitshceskih Nauk RSFSR Heft Nr.3Moskau (russ)
1947 Traumatische Aphasie Moskau (russ)
1948 Die Funktionreahbilitation nach Hirnverletzungen. Moskau (russ).
1950 permitted to return to the Institute.
1956 (1958) Probleme der hoheren Nerventatigkeit beim normalen und behinderten Kind Bande 1 und 2.
1957 Die Entstehung der Willkurbewegung Woprosi psichologii Heft 2 (russ)
1958 Brain disorders and language analysis. Language and speech 1.
1959 Disorders of Simultaneous perception in case of bilateral occipito-parietal brain injury. Brain 82.
1959 The directive role of speech in development and dissolution Word 15
1959 Die Entwicklung des Sprechens und der psychischen Prozesse. In: Psychologie in der UdSSR Band 1, Moskau (russ)
1960 Verbal regulation of behavior. In: Brazier, M. (Hg): The Central Nervous System and Behavior (Third Macy Conference). Bethesda, Maryland
1961 The Role of Speech in Regulation of Normal and Abnormal Behavior. Oxford
1962,1966, 1969 Die hoheren kortikalen Funktionen des Menschen. Moskau (russ) Deutsch Berlin 1970
1963, 1966, 1970 Das menschliche Gehirn and die psychischen Prozesse. Moskau (russ).
1964 Factors and forms of aphasia. In: Disorders of Language. Ciba Foundation Symposium. Basel.
1965 Aspects of aphasia. J. Neurol. Sci.2
1965 Two kinds of motor perseveration in massive injury of the frontal lobes. Brain 88
1968 published a case study of a man with an exceptional and idiosyncratic memory
¡§Malenikaja knishka o bolshoi pamjati¡¨ ( im Verlag Isdatelstwo Moskowskogo Uniwersiteta)
Published later in 1991 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinberg bei Hamburg
As
¡§Der Mann dessen Welt in Scherben ging. Zwei neurologische Geschihten¡¨
1969 The frontal syndrome. In: Vinken, P.J.& Bruyn, G.W. (Hg.): The origin and cerebral organization. An Evening Lecture to the 19th International Congress of Psychology. London.
1969 Die bewusste Hadlung, ihr Ursprung and ihre zelebrale organization.
Woprosi psichologii. Heft Nr. 5 (russ).
1970 The functional organization of the brain. Scientific American 222, Heft Nr.3
1970 Gehirn and Geist. Priroda. Heft Nr.3 (russ).
1971 ¡§Poterjannij i woswraschennyi mir¡¨ ( im Verlag Isdatelstwo Moskowskogo Uniwersiteta)
Published later in 1991 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinberg bei Hamburg
As ¡§Der Mann dessen Welt in Scherben ging. Zwei neurologische Geschihten¡¨
1971 Memory disturbance in local brain lesions. Neuropsychologia 9.
1972 Aphasia reconsidered. Cortex 81.
1973 Die Neuropsychologie des Gedachtnisses. Moskau (russ)
1972 published a case study about the man who suffered a traumatic brain injury
1973 ¡§Osnowy nejropsicholgii¡¨ ( im Verlag Isdatelstwo Moscowskogo Iniwersiteta, Moskau deutsche Estrausgabe.)
This book was translated and published in Germany later on in 1990-1992 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH. As ¡§ Das Gehirn in Aktion: Einfuhrung in die Neuropsycholgie¡¨.
1976 ¡§Cognitive Development: its Social and Cultural Foundations¡¨
First Published: 1974;
Source: Cognitive Development Its Cultural and Social
Foundations;
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1976;
Translated: Martin Lopez-Morillas & Lynn Solotaroff
1979 ¡§The making of Mind¡¨
First Published: 1979;
Source: The Making of Mind: A Personal Account of Soviet
Psychology;
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1979
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