Karl Lashley

Karl Spencer Lashley was an American psychologist and behaviorist, born in Davis, West Virginia in 1890 and died in 1958, remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. He began in zoology at West Virginia University, took a doctorate in genetics at Johns Hopkins University in 1911 and minored in psychology under John B. Watson, who had a great deal of influence on him. He worked at the University of Minnesota, at the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago, at the University of Chicago and at Harvard, and then became director of the Yerkes Laboratory of Primate Biology. A Review of General Psychology survey published in 2002 ranked him the 61st most cited psychologist of the 20th century.