Karl H. Pribram

Karl H. Pribram ( born February 25, 1919 in Vienna) is an American neuroscientist.

He was a long time professor at Stanford University and is now Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. A wider public he was known primarily for his " holonomic brain model", which he developed in the 1960s, together with the quantum physicist David Bohm. According to this model, the brain will not store information in individual brain cells or cell clusters, but similar to a holographic wave interference in certain specific pattern. This model of holistic functioning of the brain sees Pribram as a further development of the established by the Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler hypotheses on the field character of cerebral activity.

Writings

  • With George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter: Plans and the Structure of Behavior. 1960th German: strategies of action. Plans and structures of behavior. Klett- Cotta 1973, 1991.
  • With Merton Gill: Freud 's "Project" reassessed, 1976.
  • Languages ​​of the Brain. In 1971.
  • Toward a holonomic theory of perception. In: Ertel, Kemmler, Stadler: Gestalt theory in modern psychology. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 1975, p 161-184.
  • Holonomy and Structure in the Organization of Perception '' In: . John M Nicholas ( ed.). Images, Perception, and Knowledge '' 1977, p 155-185.
  • What is the holographic paradigm? In Ken Wilber (ed.): The holographic worldview. Joke, Bern, Munich, Vienna 1988, pp. 27-36.
  • Brain and Perception. In 1991.
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