 It located connective learning at the physical and neurological levels, rejecting the "sense data" associationism of the empiricists and logical positivists.Hayek presented his work to the private seminar he had created with Herbert Furth called the Geistkreis.During Hayek's years at the University of Vienna, Carl Menger's work on the explanatory strategy of social science and Friedrich von Wieser's commanding presence in the classroom left a lasting influence on him.