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Beatrice Gelber | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington |
Known for | Associative learning and conditioning in paramecia |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology, experimental psychology |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Beatrice Gelber is an American psychologist best known for her work on associative learning in protozoa, suggesting that synaptic plasticity is not an essential neurochemical mechanism for learning and memory.