Oliver Sacks about Alexander Luria
British neurologist Oliver Sacks, who wrote famous The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, brings up his memories of Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, a distinguished student of Lev Vygodsky. Luria s most known book is The Mind of a Mnemonist, a case study of a person with seemingly unlimited memory. Another wellknown book entitled The Man with a Shattered World is a penetrating account of a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury during WWII.
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