Fundamentals of neuropsychology. Luria A.

The book of the largest domestic neuropsychologist Alexander Romanovich Luria is built as a training course, which briefly sets out the content of neuropsychology as academic discipline. The author in detail analyzes the psychological structure and brain mechanisms of individual mental processes - perception, arbitrary movements and actions, attention, memory, speech, thinking. The model of the three main blocks of the brain that is popular today among neuropsychologists and clinicians reveals the author’s ideas about the integral nature of the brain in the implementation of mental processes and about the main types of their disorders.