Jerzy Konorski

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(1903-1973)
http://rcin.org.pl/Content/1770/WA488_5834_2019119_75-Anniversary.pdf
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Portraits/Konorski,%20Jerzy/
Konorski was born in the Polish city of Lódz. From his earliest student days, he was fascinated by brain function, and while studying medicine at Warsaw University, he came into contact with Pavlov's work. Although inspired by Pavlov's ideas, he doubted that Pavlovian mechanisms could explain all formsof acquired behavior, especially instrumental or operant conditioning. Along with a fellow student, Stephan Miller, he set up a makeshift conditioning laboratory to investigate whether instrumental and classical (Pavlovian) conditioning obey the same principles of reinforcement. On the basis of this work, Miller and Konorski (1969) published the first statement of the distinction between the two forms of conditioning in 1928, while they were still students. The existence and importance of this distinction was not realized in the West until Konorski and Miller entered into a published debate with B. F. Skinner on the matter in the next decade.
(From http://www.bookrags.com/research/konorski-jerzy-1903-1973-lmem-01/)
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