I was very much influenced by the psychology of Freud and by early workers in the field of learning and memory-James, Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner, and Ulric Neisser. Their thinking, and even their errors, provided a wonderfully rich cultural background for my later work. (Eric Kandel)

I was very much influenced by the psychology of Freud and by early workers in the field of learning and memory-James, Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner, and Ulric Neisser. Their thinking, and even their errors, provided a wonderfully rich cultural background for my later work.

Eric Kandel

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