Department of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales, UK.
Clinical Neuropsychology Unit, Faculty of Psychology, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Cortex. 2024 Sep;178:141-156. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.06.002. Epub 2024 Jun 11.
Aleksandr Luria repeatedly emphasised the importance of emotions and the right hemisphere in his neuropsychological writings. It is surprising, therefore, that Luria's most influential book, The Working Brain, appears to lack an explicit section on these topics. This is especially notable because of a comment in the book's English-language Introduction, by Karl Pribram, referencing Luria's thoughts about precisely this material. Remarkably, it seems that Luria did write such an explicit chapter, in the original Russian edition. However, in the English-language version, the relevant sections were separated, embedded elsewhere without chapter headings, and altered, presumably following an explicit translation decision. The present paper tracks the nature of these changes and, 50 years later, presents the material for the first time translated and reunited in English, as Luria intended. After the translation, we offer a brief commentary, on the ways in which Luria's ideas were in some respects prescient, and in other respects less well-informed about the brain basis of emotions and the right hemisphere. This reunification offers an interesting time capsule on the opinions of one of neuropsychology's greatest minds, on a topic which Luria admits had, at the time, only a modest empirical foundation.
阿列克谢·列昂尼多维奇·鲁利亚在其神经心理学著作中反复强调情感和右脑的重要性。因此，令人惊讶的是，鲁利亚最具影响力的著作《工作着的大脑》似乎没有专门的章节来讨论这些主题。这一点尤其值得注意，因为本书英文版的引言中，卡尔·普里布拉姆（Karl Pribram）提到了书中对这些材料的具体看法。令人惊讶的是，在最初的俄文版中，鲁利亚确实写了这样一个明确的章节。然而，在英文版中，相关章节被分离出来，嵌入到其他章节中，没有章节标题，并进行了修改，可能是根据明确的翻译决策进行的。本文追踪了这些变化的性质，并在 50 年后，首次以英语翻译并重新呈现了鲁利亚原本打算呈现的内容。翻译后，我们对鲁利亚的思想进行了简要的评论，指出了他的思想在某些方面具有先见之明，而在其他方面对情绪和右脑的大脑基础的了解则不够充分。这种重新统一为我们提供了一个有趣的时间胶囊，展示了这位神经心理学界最伟大的思想家之一对这个主题的看法，鲁利亚承认，当时这个主题只有一个适度的经验基础。
