Who is A. R. Luria from Beyond Culture and what is their importance?

A. R. Luria is a Russian scientist whose work deals with specialized brain functions He has advanced theories as to how the human brain processes information and stores it in ways which are independent of culture. His work included the writings of a Russian engineer named Zasetsky who suffered severe brain damage in World War II, but whose frontal lobe survived the trauma and whose subsequent descriptions of how he perceived the world led to Lucia's conclusions on the functioning of the brain.