Experimental analysis of instinctive behavior.

Lashley, K. S.

doi:10.1037/h0060183

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“…Due to their work we have re-envisioned the motor systems as not only motor but also sensory and cognitive, sampling and foraging for coherence in an active nervous system (Von Holst, 1973), in which the "serial order of behavior" (Lashley, 1938) underlies everything from oral facial pattern generators (Berridge, 2000) to syntactical ordering in language production (Pinker, 1994). The brain is an active organ, and diverse internal generators orchestrate behavioral sequences.…”

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Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience

Schulkin¹

2015

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Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience

Schulkin¹

2015

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“…The claim that Lashley assigned an important role to genetic influences in the development of behavior is well supported in the published literature (e.g., Lashley, 1938Lashley, , 1947Lashley, , 1949. Nevertheless, there are some aspects of Weidman's presentation of Lashley's views that are somewhat misleading.…”

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confidence: 88%

Constructing representations of Karl Spencer Lashley

Dewsbury

2002

J History Behavioral Science

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I compare, contrast, and analyze two published constructions, a straightforward approach and a social constructivist perspective, of the life and work of psychobiologist Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958). Although it is clear at a general level that scientific endeavors are affected by extrascientific factors, particular concern is directed at the issues involved in demonstrating that the scientific work of an individual, in this case Lashley, is affected by specific extrascientific influences. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that Lashley's work was driven predominantly by racial and genetic determinist positions and that he was something other than the scientist he represented himself as being. I then discuss an unpublished personality theory approach to Lashley that suggests the influence of some personality characteristics on his work and helps to provide balance and perspective in constructing representations of Lashley.

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“…"Although the distinction of genetic and environmental influences has little importance in many fields of psychology, it is of real significance for problems of the physiological basis of behavior," Lashley wrote in 1938. 55 He chose to study intelligence by focusing on the brain because in that area of psychology heredity played the greatest role. For Lashley, studying the biological basis of behavior meant elucidating innate differences.…”

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Mental testing and machine intelligence: The Lashley-Hull debate

Weidman

1994

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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Karl Lashley and Clark Hull had a long and unresolved controversy about the structure and function of the brain, its relationship to the mind, and the use of machine metaphors to explain intelligence. Though on the surface their debate was not about the relative importance of heredity or environment in determining intelligence and behavior, this is the subtext that ran through their exchanges. A determined hereditarian, Lashley was committed, both intellectually and institutionally, to the integration of biology and psychology. But Hull believed that environmentally‐shaped reflex connections underlay behavior and that this law made psychology the most basic of the social sciences.

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Experimental analysis of instinctive behavior.

Cited by 276 publications

References 39 publications

Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience

Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience

Constructing representations of Karl Spencer Lashley

Mental testing and machine intelligence: The Lashley-Hull debate

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