History of studying the mind

By bennaidu

  • Herman Helmholtz

    Physicist / Physiologist who started some research on visual perception.

  • Herman Ebbinghaus

    Doctor on philisophy. He started work about memory. Talked about the forgetting curve

  • Frederick Bartlett

    Also worked on memory and started the beginnings of schema related research

  • George Miller - Big Daddy G

    Father of Cognitive Psychology

  • Broadbent

    Researched perception & communication

  • Chomsky

    Learning Language. Researched about how we learned to talk

  • Ulric Neisser

    Coined the phrase "Cognitive Psychology"

  • Anderson

    Started the journal of Cognitive Science

  • Steven Pinker

    Visual cognition & Psycholinguistics [Psychology of language]