理查德·格里高利（Richard Langton Gregory，1923年7月24日—2010年5月17日）是一位英国心理学家 / 视觉科学家，英国University of Bristol 神经心理学教授，英国皇家学会会士。他曾写过一本广受欢迎的科普书《眼与脑：视觉心理学》(Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing)——此书已被译成中文：《视觉心理学》 瞿锦春 / 张芬芬译，北京师范大学出版社1986年出版。
英国有一家名为“Webofstories”的公司。他们采访了一些著名的科学家 / 研究人员，格里高利位列其中。在谈到关于人类 / 生物记忆的研究时，他放话：“半打诺贝尔奖在那里放着呢，等待被赢。” (“There must be half a dozen Nobel Prizes sitting there to be won.”)
格里高利此次采访是在2007年。2014年，这半打诺奖中的一份已被人收入囊中：此年度诺贝尔生理学或医学奖获奖者是：约翰·奥基夫（John O'Keefe）、梅-布里特·莫泽（May-Britt Moser）、爱德华·莫泽（Edvard I. Moser）。他们的研究是关于生物记忆的。
格里高利访谈中关于记忆研究的整段内容如下：
TRANSCRIPT: I find memory completely mysterious. I mean I know, of course, regions of the brain where memories are stored but the amazing thing is that we don’t actually know the physical changes in the brain that store memory. On the other hand, of course, we have a lot of analogies from computer memory. I mean we know that modification of a physical system can store information as, indeed, when you write on a page with ink, I mean one is producing a physical change which represents abstract ideas, represents the past, anticipates the future, gives you an idea, right or wrong, completely separate from the paper and the ink or the electronics in the computer, takes on a life of its own, software, if you like. And I think this is one of the wonderful things that technology is helping us to understand the brain through analogies actually and I think the hardware, software distinction, you’ve got the physical system, which can represent by rules, by encapsulating and calling up knowledge symbolically, is the key, how the brain works, memory and so on, also, of course, for computers. There’s a big analogy there, I think, actually, but the trouble is we don’t really know exactly what the hardware of memory is. It’s amazing. I mean it’s almost certainly that you get immediate memories lasting for a few seconds which are dynamic oscillatory circuits and then that’s laid down as changes which are probably connections, synaptic connections between nerve cells which form more or less permanent groups of cells which fire, you know, but the details of that are simply not known, which is extraordinary. There must be half a dozen Nobel Prizes sitting there to be won.
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