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Figure 3.8.
CORA. Source: de latil 1956, facing p. 51.
Figure 3.9.
CORA: circuit diagram. Source: walter 1953, 295.
What can we say about CORA? As its name implies, CORA was intended
to emulate classical Pavlovian conditioning in animals. As a student at Cam-
bridge, Walter had worked with a student of Pavlov for more than a year to
set up a conditioning laboratory, “mastering the technique and improving it
by the introduction of certain electronic devices.” When “the great” Pavlov
