Alexander Romanovich Luria (; 16 July 1902 – 14 August 1977) was a Russian Imperial and Soviet Russian neuropsychologist, often credited as a father of modern neuropsychological assessment. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychological tests during his clinical work with brain-injured victims of World War II, which are still used in various forms. He made an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various brain regions and integrative processes of the brain in general. Luria's magnum opus, "Higher Cortical Functions in Man" (1962), is a much-used psychological textbook which has been translated into many languages and which he supplemented with "The Working Brain" in 1973.