Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations

by Alexander R. Luria

Book Overview

Alexander Romanovich Luria, one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, is best known for his pioneering work on the development of language and thought, mental retardation, and the cortical organization of higher mental processes. Virtually unnoticed has been his major contribution to the understanding of cultural differences in thinking.

In the early 1930s young Luria set out with a group of Russian psychologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674137329
• ISBN13: 9780674137325
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"