Mind, Brain And Behavior: Research On K.S.Lashley's Neuropsychological Theory

Holding his behavioristic tradition and deeply conservative radical ideology, Lashley devotes to study a pure, fact-driven neuropsychology. We set lashley's research at the heart of two controversies that polarizes the American life and human sciences in the first half of the twentieth century. Those concerns the relation between mind and brain and relative roles of nature and nurture in shaping behavior and intelligence. His works greatly influence the development of American neuropsychology, especially his experiments and ablation technique.His studies involve training animals to perform specific tasks and lesioning a specific area of the cortex in order to record the effects of cortical lesions on the retention and acquisition of knowledge and use terms mass action and equipotentiality to present his findings. He spends long time to analyze the mechanism for the reduplication of the engram and the serial order behavior. Lashley greatly advances the study on brain mechanism and produce great influence on the cognitive science. His problems梩he organization of behavior and of the nervous system,and the role of inheritance in psychological process - are still the major problems of objective psychology.