Kurt Lewin, psychological constructs and sources of brain cognitive activity
arXiv:1711.01767
Abstract
Understanding mind-brain-environment relations is one of the key topics in psychology. Kurt Lewin, inspired by theoretical physics, tried to establish topological and vector psychology analyzing patterns of interaction between the individual and her/his environment. The time is ripe to reformulate his ambitious goals, searching for ways to interpret objectively measured brain processes in terms of suitable psychological constructs. Connecting cognitive and social psychology constructs to neurophenomics, as it is done now in psychiatry, should ground them in physical reality.
10 pages, conference paper: XXVI Psychology Colloqium, Polish Academy of Science "Brain-behavior relations in psychology", June 2017