4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
German psychologist who conducted the first systematic experimental study of memory on himself — discovering the forgetting curve and the spacing effect — establishing the empirical foundations of memory science.
Czech-German psychologist who co-founded the Gestalt school of psychology by demonstrating that perception of motion (the phi phenomenon) cannot be explained by summation of individual sensory elements.
German physiologist and philosopher who established the first experimental psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879, thereby founding psychology as an independent scientific discipline.
German-American psychologist and Gestalt school co-founder who demonstrated insight learning in chimpanzees and developed the concept of isomorphism — the structural correspondence between brain processes and conscious experience.