6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Danish physiologist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the mechanism regulating the motor control of capillaries — demonstrating that the body recruits additional capillaries during exercise rather than simply increasing flow through existing ones.
Austrian physiologist and Freud's laboratory director at the University of Vienna, who instilled in Freud the mechanistic-reductionist scientific program of the Helmholtz school — the intellectual framework Freud later struggled to apply to the mind.
Hermann von Helmholtz was a 19th-century German physicist and physician whose work on perception, thermodynamics, and electrodynamics made him one of the most versatile scientists of the 19th century.
Russian physiologist who discovered classical conditioning — the process by which a neutral stimulus acquires the power to elicit a response through association with an unconditioned stimulus — winning the Nobel Prize in 1904.
Danish physician and physiologist who collaborated with her husband August Krogh on the research for which he won the Nobel Prize — herself a significant scientist who studied diabetes and developed the oral glucose tolerance test, but whose contributions were largely attributed to her husband.
A three-volume work by Hermann von Helmholtz (1856–1867) that systematically analyzed the physiology and psychology of human visual perception.