6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Alexandra Horowitz's 2009 account of dog cognition and sensory experience — explaining what dogs smell, see, and understand based on comparative cognition research — the most widely read popular account of the science of dogs.
German-American psychologist and co-founder of the Gestalt school, who systematized Gestalt principles into a comprehensive theory of perception, learning, and development in his landmark Principles of Gestalt Psychology.
French philosopher — whose Phenomenology of Perception (1945) is the founding text of embodied phenomenology — who argued that consciousness is always already embodied and that the body is not an object but the subject's mode of being in the world.
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.
Köhler's Gestalt hypothesis that psychological experiences have the same structural form as the underlying brain processes — a structural correspondence between perception and neural activity.
Henry James's 1903 novel following Lambert Strether — sent to Paris to bring back his patron's son — whose experience of Paris transforms his understanding of what it means to live fully, concluding with his famous injunction: 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.'