Karl H. Pribram

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Karl Pribram 2010 in Prague.

Karl H. Pribram (born February 25, 1919 in Vienna , † January 19, 2015 in Virginia ) was an American neuroscientist .

He became known to a broader public primarily through his "holonomic brain model ", which he developed in the 1960s together with the quantum physicist David Bohm . According to this model, the brain should not store information in individual brain cells or cell clusters, but rather in certain patterns , similar to holography, in certain wave interference . Pribram also sees this model of a holistic way of functioning of the brain as a further development of the hypotheses made by the gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler on the field character of brain activity.

Life

He was a long-time professor at Stanford University and professor of psychology and cognitive science at Georgetown University . In 1956 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was married to the crime writer Katherine Neville (* 1945).

Fonts

  • with George A. Miller , Eugene Galanter: Plans and the Structure of Behavior. 1960. 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. 1971.
  • Toward a holonomic theory of perception. In: Ertel, Kemmler, Stadler: Gestalt theory in modern psychology. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 1975, pp. 161-184. ISBN 3-798-50400-8
  • Holonomy and Structure in the Organization of Perception. "In: John M Nicholas (Ed.): Images, Perception, and Knowledge." 1977, pp. 155-185.
  • What is the holographic paradigm about? In: Ken Wilber (ed.): The holographic worldview. Scherz, Bern, Munich, Vienna 1988, pp. 27-36. ISBN 3-502-67640-2
  • Brain and Perception. 1991.

Web links

Commons : Karl H. Pribram  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. K. Pribram: What is the holographic paradigm about? 1988, p. 33.
  2. ↑ cf. on this, K. Pribram: Toward a holonomic theory of perception. 1975; K. Pribram: Holonomy and Structure in the Organization of Perception; 1977; Michael Stadler : Field Theory Today - From Wolfgang Köhler to Karl Pribram. In: Gestalt Theory. 3 (3/4), 1981, pp. 185-199.
personal data
SURNAME Pribram, Karl H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2015
Place of death Virginia