[4] He gave the classic definition of agnosia as "a normal percept stripped of its meaning".
In 1947, he earned his PhD in social psychology at Harvard University, under the mentorship of Gordon Allport.
From this research, he introduced the "corollary discharge" hypothesis, which says that the frontal lobe is involved in the anticipation of movement.
[11] In 1960, Teuber moved to Massachusetts to start a Department of Psychology at MIT after previous attempts had failed.
[12] At MIT, he was one of the researchers who studied the case of H.M.[13] He died in a sailing accident in the Virgin Islands.