‘Language and Cognition’ marketed in Iran

IBNA: ‘Language and Cognition’, summing up Luria’s contributions to the study of the psychology of language, discusses his general philosophical approach and theoretical and empirical research, providing a concise account of how he applied his ideas to the developmental, cross-cultural, and clinical issues of language and cognition. 

The book is rendered into Persian by Habibullah Qasem Zadeh and released in 1100 copies and 392 pages by Arjmand Publications. 

Alexander Romanovich Luria was a famous Soviet neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist. He was one of the founders of Cultural-Historical Psychology, and a leader of the Vygotsky Circle. 

Apart from his work with Vygotsky, he is widely known for his later work with two extraordinary psychological case studies, his study of a man with a highly advanced memory, published as ‘The Mind of a Mnemonist’, and the study of a man with traumatic brain injury, published as ‘The Man with a Shattered World’.

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