Alexander Romanovich Luria, genellikle modern nöropsikolojik değerlendirmenin babası olarak kabul edilen bir Rus nöropsikologdu. II.Dünya Savaşı'nın beyin yaralı kurbanları ile yapılan klinik çalışmaları sırasında hala çeşitli şekillerde kullanılan geniş ve orijinal bir nöropsikolojik test bataryası geliştirdi.
To this day I can't escape from seeing colors when I hear sounds. What first strikes me is the color of someone's voice. Then it fades off...for it does interfere.
The years dragged on. Stacks of notebooks piled up on his desk—at first, thin books he put together himself out of yellow paper, then thick gray notebooks he used after he sent the first batch off. He later changed to even larger notebooks in oilskin covers. By this time he had written a thousand pages, and when he had finished another thousand, he started over again, trying to express himself better and more fully. He started this story before the war ended and continued work on it for twenty-five years. One would be hard put to say whether any other man has ever spent years of such agonizing work putting together a 3,000 page document which he could not read. Why, did he do it? What was the point?