Lashley, Karl

(1890-1958) - American psychologist. Studied the changes in mental regulation of animal behavior when you remove them from various parts of the brain involved in the problem of localization of mental functions. In their experiments, L. ascertain the views of the process of learning to the number of remote brain substance, coming to the denial of higher depending on adaptive responses of individual sections of the cerebral cortex ( 'mechanisms of the brain and intelligence', 1929). Rejecting the principle of localization of reflex acts (including the conditioned reflex), L. opposed the teaching and. P. Pavlova. Further L. declined from its extreme position and the principle of equipotential (equivalence) of any parts of the brain in the development of skills and solving intellectual problems