Along with Max Wertheimer and his close associate Wolfgang Köhler they established Gestalt psychology.

Koffka's wide-ranging interests included perception, hearing impairments in brain-damaged patients,[3] interpretation, learning, and the extension of Gestalt theory to developmental psychology.

[3] Each year since 2006, a committee of Giessen University Department of Psychology has sought nominations and decided on the recipient(s) of the award.

Nomination forms are sent by the members of the Committee to large numbers of individuals, usually in September the year before the award is made.

Source: Justus Liebig University, Giessen Unlike some science awards, such as the Nobel Prize, the Kurt-Koffka medal has a good gender balance of recipients (by 2023, 11 men and 9 women).