Karl Lashley
Karl Spencer Lashley (born June 7, 1890 in Davis (West Virginia) , † August 7, 1958 in Poitiers , France) was an American psychologist from the school of behaviorism . He coined the terms engram and equipotentiality .
Lashley studied at West Virginia University and in Pittsburgh and received his Ph.D. in 1914 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. PhD with John B. Watson .
He later worked at the University of Minnesota , the University of Chicago and was from 1935 at Harvard University . In 1942 he succeeded Robert Yerkes as head of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology in Orange Park , Florida.
In 1930 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 1932 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1951 he was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society . In 1943 he received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the NAS.
Lashley died unexpectedly in 1958 while on vacation in Poitiers, France, at the age of 68.
Works
- 1923 The behavioristic interpretation of consciousness , in Psychological Review, Vol 30 (4), Jul 1923, 237-272. ii. Psychological Review, Vol 30 (5), Sep 1923, 329-353.
- 1929 Brain mechanisms and intelligence , University of Chicago Press.
- 1930 Basic neural mechanisms in behavior , Psychological Review, 37, 1-24.
- 1950 In search of the engram , Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 4, 454-482.
Web links
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Entry on Lashley, Karl Spencer (1890-1958) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lashley, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lashley, Karl Spencer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Davis (West Virginia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th August 1958 |
| Place of death | Poitiers |