Karl Lashley

Karl Lashley

Karl Lashley is a researcher and author of the 1950 paper In Search of the Engram, which drew together 33 years of his research on memory and the brain.

Who they are

Karl Lashley is a researcher and author of the 1950 paper In Search of the Engram, which drew together 33 years of his research on memory and the brain. On this site the name is tied to Engram.

Key papers

Lashley, K. S. (1950). In search of the engram. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 4, 454-482.

Key ideas

Engram: The lasting physical change an experience leaves in a specific group of brain cells, whose reactivation brings the memory back.

Sources

  1. Lashley, K. S. (1950). In search of the engram. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 4, 454-482.