Wolfgang Koehler

(1887-1967) - German-American psychologist, one of the leaders of Gestalt psychology. Experimentally demonstrated in experiments on animals ( 'the study of intelligence of great apes', 1917) The role of insight as a principle of organization behavior. By AK, while successfully addressing the intellectual challenges is the vision of the situation in general and its transformation into a gestalt, which makes changing the nature of adaptive reactions. Research to. expanded the understanding of the nature of skills and new forms of human behavior and animal. K. studied the phenomenon of transposition, the basis for a swarm-reaction of the organism are not separate, isolated stimuli, but on their ratio. He believed that psychological knowledge should be modeled on the physical, since the processes in the mind and body as a material system are in one-one correspondence (isomorphism). Following this idea, has extended the notion of Gestalt to the brain. This. Prompted the followers to. postulate the existence of the brain electrical fields that serve as correlate of mental n-shtaltov in the perception of external objects