caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality fields birth_date image article_title name
circa 1925 14 august 1977 moscow , soviet union kazan , russian empire soviet psychology 16 july 1902 luria.jpg alexander luria
 alexander luria
alexander luria

alexander romanovich luria -lrb- ; 16 july 1902 -- 14 august 1977 -rrb- was a soviet neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist .
he was one of the founders of cultural-historical psychology , and a leader of the vygotsky circle .
luria 's magnum opus was his textbook on neuropsychology , `` higher cortical functions in man '' -lrb- 1962 -rrb- , which has been translated into multiple languages and which he supplemented with `` the working brain '' in the 1970s .
apart from his work with vygotsky , luria is widely known for two extraordinary psychological case studies : of a man with a highly advanced memory , published as `` the mind of a mnemonist '' , and of a man with traumatic brain injury , published as `` the man with a shattered world '' .
during his career luria worked in a wide range of scientific fields at such institutions as the academy of communist education -lrb- 1920-1930s -rrb- , experimental defectological institute -lrb- 1920-1930s , 1950-1960s , both in moscow -rrb- , ukrainian psychoneurological academy -lrb- kharkiv , early 1930s -rrb- , all-union institute of experimental medicine , and the burdenko institute of neurosurgery -lrb- late 1930s -rrb- .
a `` review of general psychology '' survey , published in 2002 , ranked luria as the 69th most cited psychologist of the 20th century .
