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Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler
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mine! are iclentical, the structure of conscious experience cluring perception or memory or problem solving necessarily mirrors the physical structure of activity in the brain.
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Max Wertheimer was just beginning his famous studies of apparent motion. Together they plannecl the future of what wouIcl soon become Gestalt psychology.
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The rest of his time was occupied with a very different book, one that he hopecl would establish the scientific basis of Gestalt psychology beyond any doubt. Its title a mouthful even in Germanwas Die Physischen Gestatten in Rube und im Stationaren Zustand (1920)
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those concepts in the 1980s en cl 1990s were largely unfamiliar with this aspect of KohIer's work. ( One exception is Stephen Palmer, who cites Die Physischen Gestalten in his book Vision Science ~ ~ 999, n.
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because the electrical currents flowing in the visual cortex have that structure too. In his William James Lectures of 1934 (later publisher!
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Hitler quickly turned his attention to the universities, issuing a decree that all Jewish professors en cl academics from Nobel Prize winners clown to laboratory research assistants were to be dismissed at once. There was surprisingly (and disturbingly)
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With Richard Helcl he succeeclecl in recording direct currents from the brains of waking human observers, using scalp electrocles placer! over the occipital region (1949~.
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. He was electecl president of the American Psychological Association for 1959 en cl was macle honorary president of the analogous German association on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
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1. 1920 Die physischen Gestalten in Ruhe und im stationaren Zustand; Eine naturphilosophische Untersuchung.
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II. Zur Theorie der Reproduktion.
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Currents of the human auditory cortex.
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