Pribram, Karl

Pribram, Karl. The Neurophysiology of Remembering. Scientific American 22 (1969). 

Karl Pribram did not receive his most significant recognition and awards until the 1980s... 

Karl Pribram was no prosaic scientist. He was a visionary who hungered for a unified theory of behavior, just as Einstein struggled in vain to create a unified field theory. Today, equally obsessed physicists and mathematicians strive for a theory of everything. If someone succeeds, I suspect that it will defy, rather than enhance comprehension for most of us. 

He left the impression that BZ was hundreds of times more potent than LSD. At one of Karl Pribram s weekly seminars, I almost came to blows about this misconception with Dr. Fred Melges, a staff psychiatrist. Quoting Abood, he insisted I just didn t know what I was talking about when I said that LSD was actually more potent than BZ. Telling him I was the one who did the studies with BZ seemed to have no effect. I guess the Army can take a researcher out of the credible category pretty fast. 

In 1989, still another after-image of Edgewood appeared. Enoch Noch Callaway, a distinguished professor of psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), unexpectedly called me at home. Fie had done some of the earliest research with atropine at Edgewood Arsenal in the early 1950s. Although unaware of this at the time, I had called him on impulse one morning in 1967 from Karl Pribram s lab, to ask a question about his latest article in the American Journal of Psychiatry. 

Dennis felt confident that the brain operates on the principle of a hologram. This was an idea originated by Karl Pribram, a... 

The interested reader should examine Karl Pribram s Languages of the Brain (1971) for the current status of holographic theories of brain function. 

Karl H. Pribram, Languages of the Brain, 1971 Brandon House, New York, recently reissued (1988). See also his essay "what the Fuss is All About", in The Holographic Paradigm, Ken Wilber (ed.). New Science Library, shambala 1982. other articles in this volume discuss the possibilities and limitations of the model, (back)... 

From Metaphors to Models the Use of Analogy in Neuropsychology", Karl H. Pribram in Metaphors in the History of Psychology, David e. Leary, ed., 1990, Cambridge university Press, (back)... 

Karl Pribram, ed., 1994, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, (back)... 

Brain and Perception Holonomy and Structure in Figural Processing, Karl H. Pribram, 1991, Lawrence Erlbaum... 

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