The problem of serial order in behavior.
Lashley, K. S. (1951)
In Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior, Wiley, pp. 112-136.
- Nominator's statement
- Although he was trained as a behaviorist and contributed heavily to behaviorist-inspired research, he criticized behaviorist models of learning in the work cited (and elsewhere), where he shows that associative chaining cannot account for serial behavior, and that higher order representations in the brain must be postulated to explain such behavior. He fully acknowledged the existence and explanatory necessity of the mind, an organization of mental processes, and he held out the prospect it might some day be identified with a neural organization. His famous search for the engram" resulted in the conclusion that the neural substrate for higher order memorial functions, or intelligence, is widely distributed throughout the cortex.
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