A person who studies, believes in, or practices configurationism; someone who emphasizes configuration or arrangement in their field.
From configurationism + -ist person suffix. The -ist ending creates agent nouns, indicating someone who practices or believes in the preceding ideology.
A configurationist psychologist would study how your brain recognizes a melody as the *same song* even if played in different keys—the pattern (configuration) matters more than the individual notes, revealing something profound about how minds actually work.
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