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He was born on June 7, 1890 in the town of Davis, West Virginia. Even as a child he was interested in animals, an interest which continued throughout his adult life. His mother, Maggie Lashley, encouraged him in intellectual pursuits.
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He was born on June 7, 1890 in the town of Davis, West Virginia. Even as a child he was interested in animals, an interest which continued throughout his adult life. His mother, Maggie Lashley, encouraged him in intellectual pursuits.
After studying at the University of West Virginia and then taking a master's degree in bacteriology at the University of Pittsburgh, Lashley did doctoral and postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University. While at Hopkins, he was influenced by the zoologist H. S. Jennings, the psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, and the psychologist John B. Watson, the father of behaviorism.
Lashley was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (1936), the University of Chicago (1941), Western Reserve University (1951), the University of Pennsylvania; in 1953, Johns Hopkins University presented him with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Lashley was at once an experimental researcher and a psychological theoretician. His investigations were published in the leading journals and proceedings of major scientific societies. After several joint studies with Jennings, Lashley published his own thesis, "Inheritance in the Asexual Reproduction of Hydra. …" He collaborated with Watson in studying behavior in seabirds, acknowledging Watson's behavioristic approach the rest of his life.
Collaborating with Shepherd Ivory Franz, Lashley produced several papers on the effects of cerebral destruction upon retention and habit formation in rats. This was the beginning of his preoccupation with one of the persistent problems in psychology, that of cerebral localization. Earlier researchers Gall, Broca, Fritsch and Hitzig, Ferrier, and Munk were all believers in exact cerebral localization, whereas Flourens, Goltz, and Franz doubted it. The culmination of his localization experiments was Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence: A Quantitative Study of Injuries to the Brain (1929), his longest, most significant monograph. In it he summarized his concepts of equipotentiality and mass action and marshaled the experimental evidence to support them. Thus he accounted for the absence of precise and persistent localization of function in the cortex. Lashley's experiments denied the simple similarity and correspondence, previously assumed, between associationistic connectionism and the neuronal theory of the brain as a mass of neurons connected by synapses.
In addition to his researches Lashley taught as professor of psychology at the universities of Minnesota and Chicago and at Harvard University. He held various honorary positions and lectureships, was on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals, served as member of and adviser to governmental committees, and was elected to many scientific and philosophical societies. He died on August 7, 1958, in Poitiers, France.
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Lashley was elected to many scientific and philosophical societies, including the American Psychological Association (Council member 1926-1928; President, 1929), Eastern Psychological Association (President, 1937), Society of Experimental Psychologists, British Psychological Association (Honorary Fellow), American Society of Zoologists, American Society of Naturalists (President, 1947), British Institute for the Study of Animal Behavior (Honorary Member), American Society of Human Genetics, American Physiological Society, Harvey Society (Honorary Member), National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1930). In 1938, he was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, dating to 1743.