Table of Contents

* Editorial Foreword Functional organization and mental activity * Local brain lesions and localization of functions * The three principal functional units Local brain systems and their functional analysis * The occipital regions and the organization of visual perception * The temporal regions and organization of auditory perception * The parietal regions and the organization of simultaneous syntheses * Sensorimotor and premotor zones and the organization of movement * The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity Synthetic mental activities and their Cerebral Organization * Perception * Movement and action * Attention * Memory * Speech * Thinking Conclusion

About the Author

A.R. Luria is professor of psychology at the University of Moscow. His books include Higher Cortical Functions in Man (1966), The Mind of a Mnemonist (1968), and The Man With a Shattered World (1972).