Editing Attention (section)

==Neuropsychological model==
In the twentieth century, the pioneering research of Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria led to the three-part model of neuropsychology defining the working brain as being represented by three co-active processes listed as Attention, Memory, and Activation. A.R. Luria published his well-known book ''The Working Brain'' in 1973 as a concise adjunct volume to his previous 1962 book ''Higher Cortical Functions in Man''. In this volume, Luria summarized his three-part global theory of the working brain as being composed of three constantly co-active processes which he described as the; (1) Attention system, (2) Mnestic (memory) system, and (3) Cortical activation system. The two books together are considered by Homskaya's account as "among Luria's major works in neuropsychology, most fully reflecting all the aspects (theoretical, clinical, experimental) of this new discipline."<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Homskaya ED | translator-first = Daria | translator-last = Krotova | title =  Alexander Romanovich Luria, A Scientific Biography | series =  Plenum Series in Russian Neuropsychology | publisher = Plenum Press | pages = 70–71 | isbn = 978-1-4613-5441-3 | doi = 10.1007/978-1-4615-1207-3 | year = 2001 }}</ref> The product of the combined research of Vygotsky and Luria have determined a large part of the contemporary understanding and definition of attention as it is understood at the start of the 21st-century.