biography
| name: |
Luria, Alexander Romanovich
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pronunciation:
[looria]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1902–77)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in Kazan, W Russia. He studied at the Moscow Medical Institute, and from 1945 taught at Moscow State University, carrying out extensive researches into the effects of brain injuries that had been sustained by people during World War 2. One of the founders of neuropsychology, he established and became head of the neuropsychology unit at the university in 1967. His books include The Man with a Shattered World (trans 1972) and The Working Brain (trans 1973). |
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