Alexander Romanovich Luria A Scientific Biography
Alexander Romanovitch Luria is widely recognized as one of the most prominent neuropsychologists of the twentieth century. This book - written by his long-standing colleague and published in Russian by Moscow University Press in 1992, fifteen years after
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Plenum Series in Russian Neuropsychology Series Editors:
David E. Tupper
Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School Antonio E. Puente
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Editorial Board: Tatiana V. Akhutina, Moscow State University; Alfredo Ardila, Miami Institute of Psychology; Janna M. Glozman, Moscow State University; Evgenia D. Homskaya, Moscow State University; I. Alexander Meerson, Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute; Lena Moskovichyute, Boston v.A. Medical Center; Ludwig I. Vasserman, Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute
ALEXANDER ROMANOVICH LURIA A Scientific Biography Evgenia D. Homskaya
Alexander Romanovich Luria A Scientific Biography
Evgenia D. Homskaya Moscow State University Moscow, Russia
Edited, with a Foreword, by
David E. Tupper Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, Minnesota
Translated by
Daria Krotova
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aleksandr Romanovich Luriia. English. Alexander Romanovich Luria: a scientific biography /Evgenia D. Homskaya ... [et al.]; translated by Daria Krotova; edited, and with a foreword, by David E. Tupper. p. em. - (The Plenum series in Russian neuropsychology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-5441-3 ISBN 978-1-4615-1207-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-1207-3 1. Luriia, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich), 1902-. 2. Neurologists-Russia-Biography. 3. Psychologists-Russia-Biography. l. Khomskaia, E. D. (Evgeniia Davydovna) II. Tupper, David E. III. Series. RC339.52.LS7 A4413 2000 153.'092-dc21 [B]
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Luria's classic English signature (1962) below the frontispiece photograph is reproduced by courtesy of Joan Simon. This volume is translated and edited from the original Russian edition: E. D. Khomskaya, Aleksandr Romanovich Luriia: Nauchnaia Biographia. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1992.
ISBN 978-1-4613-5441-3 ©200l Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York in 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001 http://www.wkap.nl/ 10 9 S 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A Cl.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher
Editor's Foreword
I am very pleased to have been asked to act as the editor of the English edition of this scientific biography of Alexander Romanovich Luria written by Evgenia D. Homskaya of Moscow State University. Although perhaps it is not traditional in a Foreword, I would like to comment briefly on the subject matter, the author, and my editorial work on the book itself. About the Subject Alexander Romanovich Luria (1902-1977), a Russian neurologist and psychologist, has been recognized worldwide as one of the preeminent neuropsychologists
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