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Alexander Luria
Alexander Romanovich Luria was a Soviet neuropsychologist, often credited as the father of modern neuropsychology. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychological tests during his clinical work with brain-injured victims of World War II, which are still used in various forms. He made an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various brain regions and the integrative processes…
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science · Russian neuropsychologist (1902–1977) · physician · psychologist · special education teacher · anthropologist · also Alexander Luria, Alexander Romanovich Luria, Luria
Born 3 July 1902 · Died 14 August 1977 · Q350778
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2002· 1 entry
Ranked Luria as the 69th most cited psychologist of the 20th century
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1977· 2 entries
Died 1977-08-14.
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The All-Union Psychological Congress started its work in Moscow
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1975· 2 entries
And was matched by his last book, Language and Cognition, published posthumously in 1980
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(and in English in 1976), was his well-received book titled Basic Problems of Neurolinguistics
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (1974).
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And 1976, Luria presented successively his two-volume research study titled The Neuropsychology of Memory
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1973· 1 entry
As a concise adjunct volume to his 1962 book Higher Cortical Functions in Man
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1970· 1 entry
Under the title Neuropsychological Analysis of Conscious Activity, following the first volume from 1963 titled The Brain and Psychological Processes
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1962· 1 entry
Of Higher Cortical Functions in Man and Their Impairment Caused by Local Brain Damage
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1956· 1 entry
And 1958 under the title of Problems of Higher Nervous System Activity in Normal and Anomalous Children
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1947· 1 entry
In which "Luria formulated an original conception of the neural organization of speech and its disorders (aphasias) that differed significantly from the existing western conceptions about aphasia
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1945· 1 entry
Resulted in a number of significant developments for the future of his career in neuropsychology
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1937· 3 entries
Studied at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (1937).
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Luria submitted the manuscript in Russian and defended it as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Tbilisi (not published in Russian until 2002)
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And was appointed Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences
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1934· 1 entry
Luria completed his medical education at 1st Moscow Medical Institute
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1932· 2 entries
In the US), Speech and Intellect in Child Development, and Speech and Intellect of Urban, Rural and Homeless Children (both in Russian)
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As The Nature of Human Conflicts and made him internationally famous as one of the leading psychologists in Soviet Russia
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1928· 1 entry
While the other two were published in the 1930s
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1924· 1 entry
Luria met Lev Vygotsky, who would influence him greatly
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1923· 1 entry
Moved to Moscow, where he lived on Arbat Street
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1921· 1 entry
Studied at Kazan State Medical University (1921).
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-07-03.
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