Kurt Lewin, psychological constructs and sources of brain cognitive activity
Курт Левин, психологические конструкты и источники когнитивной активности мозга
2017-11-06
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Kurt Lewinmind-brain-environment relationsneurophenomicspsychological constructsvector psychology
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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.
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Connecting cognitive and social-psychological constructs with neurophenomics is proposed as a way to ground psychological concepts in physical brain-based reality.
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Kurt Lewin’s topological and vector psychology sought to model interactions between individuals and their environments, drawing inspiration from theoretical physics.
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Psychiatry is identified as an existing example of linking psychological constructs to neurophenomic measurements.
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The abstract argues that contemporary research should reinterpret objectively measured brain processes using appropriate psychological constructs.
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mind–brain–environment relations
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the grounding and objective interpretation of psychological, cognitive, and social constructs through measured brain processes and neurophenomics
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