莱士利(1890-1958)

Karl Spencer Lashley Award

美国神经心理学家、行为主义者。他以研究大鼠的形状视知觉和有关学习和记忆的脑功能而闻名，提出了大脑机能定位问题上的两个重要原理，均势原理和整体活动原理。1929年当选为美国心理学会主席，1930年当选为国家科学院院士。

Karl Spencer Lashley 1890—1958 A Biographical Memoir by Frank A. Beach

Karl Lashley is generally considered the “founder of neuropsychology”. He is known for his “law of mass action” and the principle of “equipotentiality”. Lashley studied under Watson at Johns Hopkins University where he earned his PhD. His career as a physiological psychologist took him to the universities of Minnesota and Chicago, to Harvard,
and finally to the Yerkes Laboratory on Primate Biology.

Notable publications
 * 1923 "The behavioristic interpretation of consciousness." Psychological Bulletin
* 1929 "Brain mechanisms and intelligence."
* 1930 "Basic neural mechanisms in behavior." Psychological Review
* 1951 "The problem of serial order in behavior." Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior