As apropriações dos estudos neuropsicológicos de Luria na atualidade

Abstract

It was observed that the Alexander Romanovich Luria’s Neuropsychology has been interpreted and appropriated inconsistently in comparison with the epistemology that underlies his work. Thus, this research is a literature review, based on the perspectiva of cultural-historical psychology, that aimed to inquire whether the published articles in portuguese between the years of 2006 and 2016, available in the CAPES and Scielo database, regarding Soviet psychologist Luria’s Neuropsychology, are or not in conformity with the tenets postulated by him. Therefore, the articles found in the mentioned database have been read and compared with the main work that brings the central ideas developed by Luria. The result was a great discrenpancy between lurian concepts and the majority of the articles, in which Luria’s work was fragmented and partially appropriated. The leading method of Luria’s theory, the historicaldialectical materialism, was disregarded and, as a direct consequence of that, other central patterns of appropriation are going to be pointed out, such as approaching theories; tendency towards dichotomization and standardization of lurian tests