TY  - GEN
AU  - Luria, Aleksandr Romanovich
AU  - Solotaroff, Lynn [trans.]
AU  - Bruner, Jerome S. [foreword]
TI  - The mind of a mnemonist: a little book about a vast memory
SN  - 9780674576223
U1  - 153.12 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Memory
KW  - Memory disorders
N1  - 

Translated from the Russian by Lynn Solotaroff,
With a new foreword by Jerome S. Bruner
N2  - This study explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon―a man who was endowed with virtually limitless powers of memory. From his intimate knowledge of S., the mnemonist, gained from conversations and testing over a period of almost thirty years, A. R. Luria is able to reveal in rich detail not only the obvious strengths of S.’s astonishing memory but also his surprising weaknesses: his crippling inability to forget, his pattern of reacting passively to life, and his uniquely handicapped personality
ER  -