Abstract
The russian Alexander Romanovich Luria, commonly credited as the father of modern neuropsychology, was responsible for the greater understanding of human psychic and behavioral processes. Through studies on brain injuries, Luria tried to generate an integrative and logical theory for brain functions, in other words, to develop further technical studies on mental functions. To this end, he divides the general brain activities into three units, the first having the function of maintaining surveillance, the second being responsible for obtaining, processing, integrating and storing the information provided by the environment, and the third unit is responsible to plan, execute and direct the pattern of human behavior. Thus, the aim of this study is to review the frontal lobe (FL) neuropsychology and to associate it with the third functional unit of Luria. The references of the book "The Working Brain" were used. In the end, it was possible to conclude from Luria's conceptions that the third functional unit is responsible for the stimuli synthesis, preparation for action, program constructions, verification of the activity’s ways, generation of activation process linked to the most complex conscious actions and a speech collaboration.
Highlights
The goal of this work is to review the neuropsychology of the frontal lobe (FL) and its association with the concept of the third functional unit purposed by Luria
The superior brain functions were the subject most used in this work followed by articles about the frontal lobe (Figure 2)
The data were concatenated in the intersection of the subjects with the frontal lobe and brain pathologies found in many articles and books, and some papers were not used because of the language used i.e., Russian
Summary
Luria divided the general activities of the brain into three units − 1] a unit to control and regulate the tone and waking in mental states; 2] the unit to store and to analyses the received information; and 3] the unit to regulate, program and to verify the cerebral activities − stating which of those units form the ground to understanding the different forms of mental activities (for more details see Luria, 1973a) Those units are not located in specific cerebral areas but in several parts of the brain, working in a harmonic conjunction (Aversi-Ferreira et al, 2010). A fact that deserves a comment is that, until today, most neuroscience books (neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, inter alia) show in their text the brain functions as separated parts with isolated functions
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