The mind of a mnemonist
Subtitle: a little book about a vast memory
By: A.R. Luria ; translated from the Russian by Lynn Solotaroff ; with a new foreword by Jerome S. Bruner.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Memory disorders -- Case studies.; Memory.
Description: A welcome re-issue of an English translation of Alexander Luria's famous case-history of hypermnestic man. The study remains the classic paradigm of what Luria called 'romantic science,' a genre characterized by individual portraiture based on an assessment of operative psychological processes. The opening section analyses in some detail the subject's extraordinary capacity for recall and demonstrates the association between the persistence of iconic memory and a highly developed synaesthesia. The remainder of the book deals with the subject's construction of the world, his mental strengths and weaknesses, his control of behaviour and his personality. The result is a contribution to literature as well as to science. (Psychological Medicine ).
Notes: Translation of: Malenʹkai͡a︡ knizhka o bolʹshoĭ pami͡a︡ti.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1968. With new introd.