RUDN Journal of Psychology and PedagogicsRUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics2313-16832313-1705Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2616210.22363/2313-1683-2021-18-1-273-282MiscellaneousIn Memoriam of FriendKotik-FriedgutBella S.<p>Sc.Dr., is Professor and a member of an Academic Council</p>bella.kotik@gmail.comD. Yellin Academic College of Education3003202118127328230032021Copyright © 2021, Kotik-Friedgut B.S.2021<p style="text-align: justify;">The article is dedicated to the memory of Professor Alfredo Ardila (1946-2021), Doctor of Psychology, Distinguished Professor at the Albizu University (USA, Miami), Past President of the Latin American Association of Neuropsychology, Member of the Council of the International Neuropsychological Society (USA, Miami) and the Editorial Board of the International Journal Lurian Journal, student and the successor of the glorious traditions of the Lurian neuropsychological school. The author shares her personal memories of co-education at the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the mid-1970s, as well as scientific cooperation and friendship, which lasted until the end of Alfredos life.</p>Alfredo ArdilaLurian school of neuropsychologycross-cultural neuropsychologyАльфредо Ардилашкола нейропсихологии А.Р. Луриякросс-культурная нейропсихология[Ardila, A., Bertolucci, P.H., Braga, L.W., Castro-Caldas A., Judd, T., Kosmidis, M.H. Matute, E., Nitrini R., Ostrosky-Solis, F., & Rosselli, M. (2010). Illiteracy: The Neuropsychology of Cognition Without Reading. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 25, 689–712. https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acq079][Ardila, A., Ostrosky, F., & Mendoza, V. (2000). Learning to read is much more than learning to read: A neuropsychologically-based learning to read method. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 789–801. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355617700677068][Ardila, A., Rosselli, M., & Rosas, P. (1989). Neuropsychological assessment in illiterates: Visuospatial and memory abilities. Brain and Cognition, 11, 147–166. https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-2626(89)90015-8][Kotik, B. (1984). On the role of the right hemisphere in speech of bilinguals. In A. Ardila & F. Ostrosky (Eds.), The Right Hemisphere: Neurology and Neuropsychology (pp. 227–240). London: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.][Kotik-Friedgut, B., & Ardila, A. (2004). Systemic-Dynamic Lurian Theory and Contemporary Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology. In T. Achutina, J. Glozman, L. Moskovich, & D. Robbins (Eds.), A.R. Luria and Contemporary Psychology (pp. 55–63). NY: Nova Hauppauge.][Kotik-Friedgut, B., & Ardila, A. (2020). A.R. Luria's cultural neuropsychology in the 21st Century. Culture & Psychology, 26(2), 274–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x19861053][Kotik-Friedgut, B., Schleifer, M., Golan-Cook, P., & Goldstein, K. (2014). A Lurian systemic-dynamic approach to teaching illiterate adults a new language with literacy. Psychology & Neuroscience, 7(4), 493–501. https://doi.org/10.3922/j.psns.2014.4.08][Kotik-Friedgut, B.S. (2002). Sistemno-dinamicheskaya kontseptsiya A.R. Luriya i neiropsikhologiya segodnya. Voprosy Psikhologii, (4), 68–76. (In Russ.)][Kotik-Friedgut, B.S., & Ardila, A. (2014). Cultural-historical theory and cultural neuropsychology today. In P. Van der Veer, A. Yasnitsky, & M. Ferrari (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology (pp. 378–400). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.][Ostrosky-Solis, F., Ardila, A., & Rosselli, M. (1999). NEUROPSI: A brief neuropsychological test battery in Spanish with norms by age and educational level. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 413–433. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355617799555045]