Working BrainThis important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive research aimed at understanding the cerebral basis of human psychological activity. The main part of the book describes what we know today about the individual systems that make up the human brain and about the role of the individual zones of the cerebral hemispheres in the task of providing the necessary conditions for higher forms of mental activity to take place. Finally, Luria analyzes the cerebral organization of perception and action, of attention and memory, or speech and intellectual processes, and attempts to fit the facts obtained by neuropsychological studies of individual brain systems into their appropriate place in the grand design of psychological science. |
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Editorial Foreword | 9 |
Local brain lesions and localization of functions | 19 |
The three principal functional units | 43 |
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afferent agnosia analysis anosognosia aphasia apraxia areas arising in lesions auditory behaviour brain lesions brain stem brain zones cerebral cortex cerebral organization changes character clinical complex forms components cortical zones defects described disturbances of memory elementary essential evoked potentials fact Figure frontal lobe lesions functional organization functional system gnostic Hécaen hippocampus Homskaya human impulses inhibition investigations irrelevant left hemisphere limbic limbic region Luria massive frontal massive lesions mechanisms medial zones mental activity mental processes mnestic activity mnestic processes Moscow Russian Moscow University motor motor cortex movement and action neurons object observed occipital orienting reflex patients with lesions patients with massive performance phonemic physiological picture precentral gyrus premotor Pribram primary problem programme responses result reticular formation right hemisphere role secondary zones sensory spatial speech speech processes stimuli structure symptoms syntheses task temporal region tests tion tone traces Tsvetkova visual cortex visual perception voluntary movement Vygotsky words